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The agency said Thursday the Jackson-based utility sought the higher rates to fund upgrades to its distribution system and to meet its clean-energy goals by retiring coal-fired plants.<\/p>\n<p>The hike is 39% of what Consumers requested. The order also lets the utility spend more to trim trees to reduce power outages.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LANSING, Mich. \u2013 Michigan regulators have approved a $100 million electric rate hike for Consumers Energy, authorizing the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3432,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[50],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v15.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Consumers Energy customers can expect a rate hike next month - Lansing Report<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/peoriamag.com\/?p=3431\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Consumers Energy customers can expect a rate hike next month - 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