1
If approved as filed, this would be a bigger increase than the 4.1 percent DTE got approved just months earlier in its last case.
+$12a month, est.
DTE Electric
Investor-owned utility (DTE Electric Company), regulated by the Michigan Public Service Commission. The average Michigan home pays about $119 a month for electricity (EIA, 2024).
1 pending rate case, about $12 a month more if approved
That is the ask, not the outcome: commissions usually approve less than the utility requests. Each case below links its docket and sources.
$119
average Michigan home today (EIA, 2024)
$131
if everything pending is approved as asked
+$12
a month
The ask, not the outcome. Your own bill scales with your usage; a home using twice the state average would see roughly twice the change.
Pending
Decided
This is one of the two annual cases that set what a typical DTE household bill looks like; the approved increase was about 58 percent smaller than DTE requested.
+$5a month
The order is meant to keep this one data center's power costs off the bills of regular DTE residential customers, but critics argue the fast, largely ex parte approval process did not fully test that promise.
no figure yet
This does not change anyone's electric bill by itself; it is a state sales tax break for data center owners, separate from the MPSC cases that set how those same data centers pay for electricity. It applies statewide, regardless of which utility serves the site.
no figure yet
How to have a say
Rate cases are decided by the Michigan Public Service Commission, which takes written comments on every docket and holds public hearings on the big ones. Comment deadlines and hearing dates are on each case page above when we have them. The office that argues for households in these cases is the Michigan Attorney General; its filings are the plain-English version of the utility's numbers.
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Corrections and tips: [email protected]. Every figure links to its source on the case page.