LANSING - The showdown between Tesla Motors Incorporated and the state about whether the company can sell its vehicles in Michigan without a franchise dealer agreement, brewing for years, is on with the company filing a lawsuit Thursday. Tesla filed the lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for Western Michigan one week after the Department
LANSING - The Public Service Commission on Thursday authorized the Upper Peninsula Power Company to increase its electric rates, but by an amount 30.4 percent lower than the utility had requested. Also, because the final amount approved ($4,647,975 annually) is lower than the more than $6.2 million the utility self-implemented in March, the PSC said
LANSING - Michigan voters will continue to be able to choose a party’s slate of candidates with a single mark on the ballot following the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision not to hear the state’s appeal of a lower court ruling preventing the new law eliminating the straight ticket option from taking effect. The high court’s
LANSING - The U.S. 6th Circuit Court of Appeals on Thursday refused to hold a hearing en banc on a stay of Michigan's straight-ticket voting ban, which raises the possibility the issue may not be resolved until after the November election. A dissent in the split-decision on whether to hear the appeal indicated that without
LANSING - Payments made to the regional electric operator overseeing Michigan's power to keep the White Pine electric generator in the Upper Peninsula running will be eliminated within 90 days, the Michigan Agency for Energy said Thursday, saving UP electric ratepayers about $7 million a year through June 2018. Customers of Upper Peninsula Power Company,
LANSING - Consumers Energy on Thursday announced a rate increase of 4.2 percent for all of its customers, residential and business, averaging about $4.09 per month for the typical home. In March, the utility filed a $225 million request with the PSC to adjust its electric rate structure but has since come down to $170
ANN ARBOR - After five years of steady statewide improvement, fewer Michigan communities report that they are better able to meet their fiscal needs this year. A University of Michigan survey polled top elected and appointed officials in the state's 1,856 units of local government and found that 2016 marked a change in earlier trends
LANSING - A spokesperson for the Midcontinent Independent System Operator said Thursday said it is too early to say if the group would study electric generation expansion in northern Michigan as Gov. Rick Snyder has requested. Snyder sent a letter to the organization that oversees electric transmission in 15 states and Manitoba urging the company
LANSING - An agreement has been reached between Cliffs Natural Resources and WEC Energy Group to provide the Upper Peninsula with long-term electric supply, the state announced Monday. The new agreement, if approved, would result in 170 megawatts of new natural gas-powered generation across two sites in the U.P., a statement from Governor Rick Snyder's
LANSING - There is no reason to grant a stay a U.S. District Court judge's ruling striking down the state's elimination of the option for voters to pick a party's slate of candidates with a single mark on the ballot, the plaintiffs suing to prevent the elimination of straight ticket voting said in a Monday
