FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
News from Progress Michigan
March 27, 2026
Contact: Levi Teitel, levi@progressmichigan.org
MPSC Gives Consumers Another Rate Hike
This move will only fuel the affordability crisis families are facing
MICHIGAN – In response to the news that the Michigan Public Service Commission (MPSC) granted a $276.6 million electric rate hike to Consumers Energy that allows the utility to bilk out an average 6.1 percent increase from their customers, Justin Mendoza, executive director of Progress Michigan, issued the following statement:
“Yet again, the MPSC is choosing to make corporate utilities wealthier while Michigan families pay the price. These nonstop rate hikes are eating into our pocketbooks while corporate shareholders and CEOs profit off us. If you’re a customer of Consumers Energy like me, about 13.9 percent of your electric bill is going toward profits for its investors.
“It doesn’t have to be this way. Ratepayers are getting robbed through higher costs of everyday things like our energy bills, while corporate utilities like Consumers don’t even make the proper investments to modernize the grid. We need our legislators to pass Senate Bill 768 and a ratepayer bill of rights because the MPSC is acting more like industry mouthpieces than regulators. Our state government should work for everyday people — not corporate monopolies.”
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