LANSING, MI (WTVB) – Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel wants to hear from you if you were affected by the recent power outages.
Branch County was pounded by a series of storms between August 6 and 12.
A big storm on the morning of August 12 left behind a large amount of damage including downed trees and power lines. Many Branch County residents were without power for several days, some for as long as a week.
Almost one-million residents and businesses in the state lost power at one time or another this month.
Nessel’s office says they want residents to provide the utility’s name, what county they live in and how long they were affected by the loss of power.
Nessel has been asking both DTE Energy and Consumers Energy to begin an automatic credit system when power is off for an extended period of time.
She stated in a news release issued by her office on Tuesday that Michigan utilities rank in the bottom quarter of reliability when benchmarked against utilities around the country, which includes being among the worst in power restoration time.
Consumer’s Energy spokesperson Katie Carey said in a statement last Friday, “To prevent outages we’ve already more than doubled our investment in grid hardening reliability and increased our forestry investment by more than 60 percent since 2018. Looking forward, we plan to continue to significantly increase our investments in grid reliability. We have a $5.4 billion electric reliability plan that is a blueprint for serving Michigan today and innovating to reduce the duration and number of power outages.”
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