"Michigan utility companies struggle to deliver reliable energy.
- “A core focus of distribution planning is on reliability, and current approaches to distribution planning, the Commission finds, are insufficient to address issues impacting the reliability of utility service to customers—whether current issues or those forecasted for the future. Put bluntly, Michigan’s distribution reliability is inadequate, and current plans for improvements are insufficient.”
“It is also clear,” the commission wrote, “that Michigan utility distribution grids are not as well positioned as necessary for the growth of (electric vehicles) and other DERs (distributed energy resources).”..."