LANSING, MI— Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel has intervened in a request from Upper Peninsula Power Company to the Michigan Public Service Commission for a rule waiver.
Under new MPSC rules, customers are entitled to an outage credit if they experience six or more outages within a 12-month period. Utilities must also track the number of outages and provide an automatic credit.
UPPCO is asking to be permanently excused from calculating each outage that occurs during catastrophic conditions. That’s when 10 percent or more of the utility’s customers are without power or there’s an emergency government declaration. Instead of calculating each outage that occurs during a catastrophic condition, UPPCO wants permission from the MPSC to count multiple outages as a single outage.
Nessel says the request for a permanent waiver from the rule is unreasonable and unnecessary.
