electric outages

Some Michigan House lawmakers are responding to this winter’s widespread blackouts with a new task force.

A few weeks ago, more than a 700,000 customers of DTE and Consumers Energy faces outages. Power may be back on, but the consequences are lingering.

Last week, state House members grilled DTE and Consumers Energy officials about the outages. This week, it's the Senate's turn

Recent outages affected hundreds of thousands of Michiganders. One Washtenaw County commissioner says utility companies have too much influence over state politicians.

Last week’s ice storm left hundreds of thousands of households without power for days through freezing temperatures. That’s as giant floods and downed electric lines due to torrential storms have become more common due to climate change.

The Michigan Public Service Commission will hold an inquest of regulated utility companies in the wake of August storms that resulted in widespread…