SAGINAW ? Applications for Consumers Energy’s new Experimental Advanced Renewable Program, which lets residential electric customers sell solar-generated power back to the electric monopoly, must be submitted by May 3.

The offer is for a fixed priced contract over 15 years.

About 115 Michigan residents are currently participating in Consumers Energy?s Experimental Advanced Renewable Program.

Consumers Energy?s EARP website provides information on this renewable energy program. That address is ConsumersEnergy.Com/EARP

Consumers Energy, the principal subsidiary of CMS Energy, provides natural gas and electricity to 6.8 million of Michigan?s 10 million residents in all 68 Lower Peninsula counties.

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