LANSING – The Michigan Public Service Commission has not yet determined if it will review the activities of certain utilities as crews continue to work on power outages in the Lansing region after the past weekend’s ice storm, the commission’s executive director said Thursday.
After major outages, the commission has occasionally reviewed utilities in affected areas to see if there are improvements to be made. But Gary Kitts, executive director of the PSC, said that has only happened four or five times in the last 20 years, and he was unsure what action – if any – the commission would take as of Thursday.
That decision could be made before the next meeting, currently slated for January 7, he said, or the meeting after that on January 23.
Saturday, ice storms swept across Michigan, hitting Lansing and other regions hard with freezing rain. The weight of so much ice proved too much for numerous tree limbs and the like, breaking and downing power lines.
Even so, no one has yet asked for a state of emergency, according to officials with Governor Rick Snyder’s office. But if they do, the office will certainly review the request, officials said.
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