Michigan utility customers who suffer lengthy power outages will automatically receive credits of $35 daily under new rules approved by the PSC.

Michigan PSC chief Dan Scripps told legislators the state’s electric grid is “nowhere it needs to be,” citing outages that affected 1 million residents.

Michigan lawmakers grilled DTE and CMS Energy officials over their efforts to restore power following storms that slammed the state in February and March.

Consumers Energy and DTE Energy are on the hot seat after weather-related outages that affected as many as 1 million Michigan customers since February.

The NCUC chair consumer advocate faced lawmakers' questions on the state's first-ever rotating outages stemming from a December storm.

NV Energy told Nevada regulators that “extreme weather” and wet snow caused outages that cut power to nearly 124,000 customers at the start of the year.

Ohio regulators cleared AEP of wrongdoing in its response to storms that led to load sheds in June but said it should manage vegetation more aggressively.

Pennsylvania regulators are reviewing the state’s cyber regulations for utilities, seeking to identify if they need to be revised to account for future threats.

Gas supply to Eastern New York could be limited during freezing weather because demand may exceed interstate pipeline capacity, NYISO’ stakeholders were told.