Consumers Energy Shields Customers from Michigan's Worst Weather in Generations
Consumers Energy delivered meaningful reliability improvements for nearly 2 million Michigan homes and businesses in 2025 even as the state faced some of the harshest and most destructive weather in generations. Despite 20% more weather–driven outage events, proactive work reduced customer impacts by 130,000 outages at their homes and businesses, and improved storm forecasting and planning generated $15 million in savings. These results highlight the impact of the company's ongoing investments in a smarter, stronger grid and enhanced storm response through the Reliability Roadmap — performance that continues to prove itself as Michigan faces more bad weather in 2026. "Recently, extreme weather has tried to test our grid in unprecedented ways," said Greg Salisbury, senior vice president and president of electric distribution. "Even with some of the most intense ice, wind and tornado activity we've ever seen — and the extreme cold and heavy snow that has hit Michigan already this year —...
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