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As previously reported, Consumers Energy filed a petition proposing to raise its retail electric generation and distribution rates approximately $216 million annually based on a projected 12-month test year ending 2/27/25. Consumers Energy is proposing other revisions to its electric rules, regulations, and tariffs, including to: 

1. “lower the eligibility of the GI provision in the Business Contractual Demand Response program to take the minimum enrollment down to 250 kW from 500 kW, to allow for greater eligibility into the year-round customer interruptible tariff option”;
2. “revise its economic development tariff to provide a facilities allowance, allow customers to select the day-ahead Locational Marginal Price to reduce energy price volatility, and allow the Company to align billing the economic development service with the credits provided under an approved voluntary green pricing service to help reduce administrative burdens for customers electing both services”; 
3. “display the interruptible credit currently embedded in the Rate EIP energy charges as a separate line item on EIP customer bills, and reduce the level of the credit – currently set at 125% of Cost of New Entry – over five years to 75% commensurate with the credits offered to other customers for interruptible service”; 
4. approval of a distribution Investment Recovery Mechanism (IRM) which would incorporate capital investment recovery, through a surcharge, of distribution programs identified as having a positive impact on major event day occurrences; and 
5. establish an all-encompassing Demand Response (DR) surcharge to separate DR- related costs from the overall base rate revenue requirement.

Consumers Distribution Spending Report For Q1 2024   (05/01/2024)
U-21389 (Opened on 03/30/2023)
(In the matter of the application for Consumers Energy Company for authority to increase its rates for the generation and distribution of electricity and for other relief.)