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In October 2008, Governor Granholm signed into law the Clean, Renewable, and Efficient Energy Act (PA295). The goal of this legislation is to delay the need to build new electric generation facilities and protect consumers from incurring these costs through various measures including energy efficiency/optimization programs.
Under the Energy Optimization (EO) section of this law, all natural gas and electric utilities must reduce energy use through customer-supported energy efficiency programs. These utilities will collect the funding required to support these programs through a new energy optimization surcharge on your energy bills.
Beginning July 1, we will implement this charge. For residential accounts, the monthly EO surcharge will be $0.00139 per kwh or about $1.20 per month for the average customer. General Service and Industrial accounts will be billed a monthly charge of $1.53 and $54.92,
respectively, per meter.
Later this year, a variety of energy optimization programs will be available. We will promote these new energy saving opportunities in Michigan Country Lines and through this website.
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