CUB in the News: How decades of neglect left Detroit’s grid vulnerable to powerful storms
Energy News Network
By Tom Perkins
September 20, 2021
CUB in the News: Michigan Gas Utilities rate increase set for 2022
Coldwater Daily Reporter
By Don Reid
September 10, 2021
CUB in the News: 1st Friday Focus On The Environment: Protecting Michigan's Power Grid As Storms Intensify
WEMU
By David Fair and Lisa Wozniak
September 3, 2021
CUB in the News: DTE Energy to spend another $70 million on tree trimming to prevent outages
Detroit Free Press
By Frank Witsil
September 1, 2021
https://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/2021/09/01/dte-michigan-tree-trimming/5680124001/
CUB in the News: Called to account: A state commission is demanding answers from energy utilities for the outages that affected over a million homes in early August
Planet Detroit
By Brian Allnutt
August 27, 2021
https://mailchi.mp/planetdetroit/aug-27-10110258?e=2428ab3bd6
CUB in the News: Mich. PSC Issues Emergency Order Following Devastating Storms
RTO Insider
By John Lindstrom
August 26, 2021
CUB in the News: 43,000 Michiganders without power with heat index expected to hit 100
Detroit Free Press
By Frank Witsil
August 25, 2021
Statement from CUB in Reaction to MPSC Special Order re: Utility Reliability
The Michigan Public Service Commission today has done the right thing for Michigan ratepayers by taking swift action to approve an order on new rules to protect consumers and improve the oversight of electric utilities following the devastating outages that have been the latest reminder of Michigan utilities' poor electric reliability record.
MPSC Chairman Dan Scripps was spot-on when he said in the commission meeting today that we need "to move away from the cycle of bad storm and a response, then another bad storm and a response" and instead make better reliability performance an enduring part of utility strategy.
CUB in the News: One Local Resident is Pushing Back Against Power Companies’ Handling of Outages
The Sun Times News
By Doug Marrin
August 21, 2021
CUB in the News: DTE says it's fixing electric grid. We can't take them at their word. | Opinion
Detroit Free Press
By Amy Bandyk
August 20, 2021