by time of day and by day of week and by season · plus $9.50 per month · covers the full bill — everything the utility bills for energy - directly comparable to another bundled rate
effective2026-10-01
today2026-10-08
Monthly bill
Usage
cheapest hours
most expensive hours
500 kWh
$110.86
$146.60
1,000 kWh
$212.23
$283.69
2,000 kWh
$414.95
$557.89
This plan prices by time of day, so a monthly total alone does not determine the bill. The columns are the bounds: every kWh in the cheapest period, and every kWh in the dearest. A real bill falls between them, and where it falls is what this plan is asking you to change.
Before taxes, franchise fees and any local surcharge.
Provenance
reconciled to a published total
sourceConsumers Energy Company M.P.S.C. No. 14 - Electric, Sheet No. D-36.00 (Ninth Revised), issued April 24 2026, effective for service rendered on and after May 1 2026, MPSC Case No. U-21870. Rate code 1040.
verifiedTranscribed from the utility's filed sheetConsumers Energy Company M.P.S.C. No. 14 - Electric, Sheet No. D-36.00 (Ninth Revised), issued April 24 2026, effective for service rendered on and after May 1 2026, MPSC Case No. U-21870. Rate code 1040.
verifiedEffective date on the sheet: 2026-10-01
verifiedReconciles to a total the utility published itselfConsumers' published headline rates of $0.245, $0.197 and $0.176 per kWh, and the Total column the rate book prints beside each energy rate's two components
verifiedSource document checked daily for changes
excludedTaxes, franchise fees and local surchargesJurisdiction-specific, so they are deliberately not encoded. A bill will be higher than this figure by that amount.
Energy rates
Period
Applies to
$/kWh
June to September, 2pm to 7pm, weekdays only
all usage
$0.27419
June to September
all usage
$0.22626
January to May and October to December, 2pm to 7pm, weekdays only
all usage
$0.21869
January to May and October to December
all usage
$0.20273
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Consumers Energy Company, M.P.S.C. No. 14 - Electric. Encoded from the Michigan Public Service Commission's CURRENT rate book files, not the utility's own copy and not the '_canceled_' files the commission publishes alongside them. Michigan rate books carry cancelled sheets in the same series as live ones.
Priced sheets are Ninth and Tenth Revised, issued April 24 2026, effective for service on and after May 1 2026, under MPSC Case No. U-21870.
THE PSCR FACTOR IS ADDED, NOT INCLUDED. The rate sheets say the rate 'is subject to the Power Supply Cost Recovery (PSCR) Factor shown on Sheet No. D-6.00'. Consumers' own explanation: costs above a base amount already inside the energy charge 'are recovered through a Power Supply Cost Recovery (PSCR) factor that may vary from month to month'. $0.01456/kWh is used here, the latest published ACTUAL factor (October 2026). Sheet No. D-6.00 now prints actual billed factors for every month of 2026 through October, and all of them are $0.01456 except March (0.01597) and June ($0.01337). A single value is still an approximation of a monthly number, but it is the one in force and it has been for eight of ten months.
PSCR IS A MONTHLY NUMBER AND THIS ENGINE HOLDS ONE VALUE. A single factor is an approximation of something that moves every month by roughly a tenth of a cent. It is about 6% of the marginal price, so omitting it would be the larger error.
Seven per-kWh surcharges apply on top of energy and distribution, totalling 1.4397 c/kWh: energy efficiency, demand response, investment recovery, financial compensation, rate case deferral, and TWO separate securitization charges - Power Plant (U-17473) and Karn 1 and 2 (U-20889).
THE KARN SECURITIZATION CHARGE IS SET YEARLY. $0.004237/kWh on the Fifth Revised Sheet D-7.10, for the October 2026 through September 2027 billing months (0.004049 the year before). It is the largest single surcharge in the stack.
The Low-Income Energy Assistance Fund charge is $1.50 per billing meter from the September 2026 billing month (Twelfth Revised Sheet D-3.00; $1.25 before).
Summer is June 1 through September 30 and winter is October 1 through May 31, stated as SERVICE DATES rather than billing months. Several tariffs in this catalogue use billing months for the same-looking split.
The Renewable Energy Plan Surcharge is filed at $0.00 per billing meter for residential rates and is included at zero rather than omitted, so that it becomes visible if it ever moves.
TRANSCRIBED FROM THE MPSC, AND WATCHED THERE. The figures were read from the commission's dated, versioned section files, which is why the revision and case numbers above are exact, and those same files are what the monitor now fetches - so a re-filing of the document somebody actually read is what marks these rates stale. The PSCR fuel factor is watched separately because it moves monthly, faster than anything else here. Consumers' own copy of the rate book is watched too, as a second witness. Until 2026-08-22 only that utility copy was watched, on the belief that michigan.gov refused the monitor; it was refusing the contact address in the user agent, not the monitor.
RECONCILED. Energy plus distribution reproduces all three of Consumers' published headline rates - $0.245 on-peak summer, $0.197 off-peak summer, $0.176 winter - which the utility qualifies as excluding PSCR, system access and surcharges. Every energy rate is also summed from its filed Non-Capacity and Capacity components and checked against the Total the rate book prints on the same row.
EXCLUDED: the Income Assistance Credit (-$8.00/month), Low Income Assistance Credit (-$42.00/meter/month) and Senior Citizen Credit (-$4.00/month), all eligibility-restricted, and Michigan state and local taxes.
CAUTION on Consumers' own Summer Rate page: its FAQ quotes off-peak summer as $0.104/kWh, which is the bare energy charge with distribution omitted, contradicting the $0.197 in the body of the same page. The embedded chart images are staler still. The body text is the one that reconciles.
A VOLUNTARY ALTERNATIVE to Rate RSP, and time-of-use ALL YEAR - which is the whole difference between them. RSP has no winter peak; this does.
The on-peak window is the same 2:00 PM to 7:00 PM on weekdays in both seasons. Weekends are off-peak.
Summer prices are IDENTICAL to Rate RSP's - $0.103970 off-peak and $0.151904 on-peak. The two schedules diverge only in winter, where RSP charges one flat $0.082996 and this splits into $0.080437 off-peak and $0.096396 on-peak. A household that never uses winter afternoons pays less here; one that does pays more.
Same $8.00 system access charge and same $0.093333/kWh distribution as RSP.
NOT ENCODED: Rate RPM, Residential Nighttime Savers (Sheet D-40.00, rate code 1050). Its prices were read, but its Schedule of Hours sits past the point where the rate book fetch truncated, and the only period definitions available came from a marketing page. Encoding a three-period time-of-use rate on hours that were not read from the filed sheet is exactly the mistake this catalogue avoids.
NOT ENCODED: Rate RSM, Residential Service Secondary Non-Transmitting Meter (Sheet D-44.10, rate code 1000). The fetch truncated inside D-44.00, so no verbatim prices were read at all. It also has a summer inclining block at 600 kWh, unlike every other residential rate here.
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Change history
The source document is fetched daily and every version is kept.
Utilities do not publish superseded rates, so this record does not exist
elsewhere once a rate changes.
No changes detected since monitoring began. The source sheet is checked daily.