Climate change challenges Michigan's power delivery
Michigan utilities are struggling to provide reliable energy to customers as storms become more frequent and severe.
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Michigan utilities are struggling to provide reliable energy to customers as storms become more frequent and severe.
LANSING— Michigan utilities are struggling to provide reliable energy to customers as storms become more frequent and severe. This past summer, Consumers Energy officials said they saw their sixth-worst storm ever for the number of people losing power. That same storm on Aug. 10 ranked second-worst in DTE Energy history, leaving 700,000 customers powerless.
Michigan utilities are struggling to provide reliable energy to customers as storms become more frequent and severe.
Michigan utilities are struggling to provide reliable energy to customers as storms become more frequent and severe.
Nationwide, the average minutes of outage per customer during bad weather is 194.5, said Douglas Jester, managing partner at 5 Lakes Energy.