Commission adopts framework tying utilities' finances to reliability performance
The commission adopted staff’s modified straw proposal to link financial incentives and penalties to seven reliability metrics, directed DTE and Consumers Energy to file standalone baseline cases by April 15, 2025, and set the first review for October 2027.
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The commission adopted an order directing utilities to link certain financial incentives and penalties to distribution reliability metrics and to file standalone cases to set baselines and thresholds. Staff adviser Kayla Gibbs summarized a multi‑year work group process that produced a straw proposal of seven metrics intended to measure outage duration, restoration times, customers experiencing multiple outages, and other reliability indicators, including an "all‑weather" metric.
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