Utility Power Outage Credits

Current understanding

To be populated as evidence accumulates.

2026-09-10 — Public utilities: consumer services; disclosure on electric utility bills of the number of power outages that occurred within that billing cycle; require. Amends 1939 PA 3 (MCL 460.1 - 460.11) by adding sec. 9e.: cross-connection with utility-outage-bill-disclosure: Both address outage transparency and remedies for customers — SB1174 requires per-cycle outage counts on bills, complementing existing outage credit rules. (novelty: 2)
2026-09-10 — Public utilities: consumer services; prohibition for an electric utility to reclaim revenue they were required to pay in service outage credits; provide for. Amends sec. 6a of 1939 PA 3 (MCL 460.6a).: SB (introduced) would amend MCL 460.6a to bar electric utilities from recovering, through customer rates, amounts they paid out as service outage credits — a consumer-protection companion to the eligibility rules in SB 1170/1171. (novelty: 2)
2026-09-10 — Public utilities: consumer services; eligibility for utility power outage credits; provide for. Amends 1939 PA 3 (MCL 460.1 - 460.11) by adding sec. 9g. TIE BAR WITH: SB 1171’26: SB 1170 (introduced) would add sec. 9g to 1939 PA 3 setting eligibility rules for customers to receive bill credits after a power outage; tie-barred to SB 1171, so it cannot take effect unless SB 1171 also passes. (novelty: 2)