Michigan AG weighs in on DTE's power outage fiasco

Published: Mar 06, 2023 Duration: 00:03:00 Category: News & Politics

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as it develops. In other news tonight it's been 3 days since our latest snowstorm in their store On 16000 customers tonight without power around at 9000 households are in the dark in Wayne County. That has more than half of the total outages. There also around 3500 in Oakland County. Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel says This is all much more than just an inconvenience are undisputed era's spoke to Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel about her plans To hold the T. E. Accountable For some customers this has been a double whammy 1st losing power After the ice storm. Then again over the weekend Attorney General Dana Nessel told me The way that duty has handled all of this is unacceptable. If I had to give them a great I guess. I give them an edge. I think they're failing. Michigan's Attorney General has the latest voice joining a chorus of a law elected leaders Fed up with D. T.'s response to the power outages that left. Hundreds of Thousands of customers in the dark to call this an inconvenience to people Is. >>Really the understatement of the century Dana Nessel has been making recommendations over the last 4 years. The Michigan public service commission to do more to ensure DTV puts its customers Above its shareholders. Detik continues to spend millions and millions and political giving. I donations to. I'm Ted to legislate and other government officials I advertise and things that it's hard for me to reconcile her office Pushing back when ever the utility ask for a rate increase. These are monopolies And So how are we going to get them to perform better If there are penalties that are associated with their poor performance. >>Nessel wants to see an increase of the credits. Customers are eligible for when they lose power and make those credits automatic. $35 is simply not going to cut. It. >>Nestle also believes there should be some disaster relief measures in place to address Future outages like creating a subsidy program for generators. Our interview comes days after reports regarding discrepancies over the number of outages On D. T.'s dashboard verses the outage map. In a statement. E. T. Said it doesn't under report outages But acknowledged there calibrating their new map since it's been over estimating The total outage count Nessel points out. That is just another reason why DTE can do better. You have a number of legislators that are prepared to act. I And you know who I think are probably willing to risk their own political future In an effort to make sure that we finally at long last. Have some accountability Here And as I ve reported in recent days there are several lawmakers at that are planned To hold detain to tap task at future hearings in Lansing. There also drafting proposals legislation That would have utility companies pay customers by the our whenever There's an outage in Southfield on risky areas CBS News Detroit Thank you want Andrea. See is all growing Wayne County Not just in the city of Detroit

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