Reliability Roadmap By the Numbers: Consumers Energy Finishing 1,350 Projects in 2024 to Keep the Lights On
With less than two weeks to go in 2024, Consumers Energy crews are completing the last of 1,350 major projects that support the company's Reliability Roadmap to keep the lights on for Michigan. "We know our friends and neighbors are expecting us to do more to build a smarter and stronger electric grid, and our work this year has focused on doing just that," said Greg Salisbury, Consumers Energy's vice president of electric grid design. "The numbers tell the story: we're upgrading our system to make sure nearly 2 million homes and businesses experience fewer and shorter power outages." Consumers Energy is spending $63.5 million combined on the 1,350 projects, part of a more than $1 billion investment to strengthen the electric grid. Other numbers that tell the Reliability Roadmap story for 2024: 25,800 - Miles of overhead low-voltage power lines that were inspected. 7,000 – Miles of power lines where trees, limbs and branches were cleared. 177,000 – Number of customers who avoided...