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investor-owned utility · EIA utility 4254

Consumers Energy Co

1,657,843 residential customers in Michigan · 60 counties in territory · balancing authority MISO

Form EIA-861, 2024 final2025 early release shown in trendMonthly to Jul 2026

Average residential price, 2024. Dial position: 94% of 1,230 US utilities had this price or lower. Ticks: Michigan and US averages.

Average price is revenue divided by sales for the sector and year; it is not a tariff rate. Reliability figures are as reported by utilities to EIA on Form 861 and may use different calculation methods. Annual figures: Form EIA-861 for 2024, final release. Monthly state figures run to July 2026.

Consumers Energy Co is an investor-owned utility that reported 1,657,843 residential customers in Michigan on Form EIA-861 for 2024, with a service territory that touches 60 counties.

Its average residential price that year was 19.11¢ per kilowatthour, about the same as the Michigan average of 19.30¢ and 16% above the US average of 16.48¢. The figure is residential revenue divided by residential sales, so it folds in fixed charges, riders and every rate schedule the utility bills under.

That works out to an average residential bill of $120.01 a month on average use of 628 kWh a month. Across Michigan the average bill was $119.31 on 618 kWh, so a bill gap reflects how much power households use as well as what each kilowatthour costs.

For reliability it reported a SAIDI of 502.6 minutes per customer with major event days included and 155.0 minutes with them excluded, calculated under IEEE 1366 standard. The median among Michigan utilities reporting was 261.6 minutes with major event days; this utility's figure is 92% above that median.

The average price is up 20.6% on 2019, against up 22.6% for Michigan as a whole, and up 1.5% on 2023. EIA's early release for 2025, which has not been fully edited, shows 20.66¢.

19.11¢average residential price per kWhMichigan 19.30¢ · US 16.48¢

$120.01average monthly residential billon 628 kWh a month

1,657,843residential customers1,894,492 customers in all sectors

502.6SAIDI minutes per customer, all eventsMichigan median 261.6

Compared with Michigan, the US and other investor-owned utilities

Measure, 2024	This utility	Investor-owned utilities, US median	Michigan	United States
Average residential price per kWh	19.11¢	16.17¢	19.30¢	16.48¢
Average monthly residential bill	$120.01	$131.47	$119.31	$142.26
Average monthly use, kWh	628	787	618	863
Residential price change, 1 year	+1.5%	—	+2.4%	+3.0%
Residential price change, 5 years	+20.6%	—	+22.6%	+26.7%
SAIDI, all events (minutes)	502.6	278.7	261.6 median	184.5 median
SAIDI, without major event days	155.0	106.5	105.0 median	99.8 median

State and US prices, bills and use are EIA's own averages over every customer. The ownership column and the reliability columns are medians across utilities with at least 1,000 residential customers, computed on this site from the final 2024 file. Among the 7 filings by investor-owned utilities in Michigan, the median price was 17.43¢. In Michigan this utility's price ranks 9 of 30, counting from the highest.

Average price by year

Consumers Energy CoMichigan averageUS average

Cents per kWh, nominal. The hollow point is EIA's 2025 early release, which has not been fully edited.

Year by year

Year	¢ per kWh	Michigan ¢	Monthly bill	kWh a month	Residential customers	All sales
2025 early release	20.66¢	20.01¢	$134.01	649	1,662,741	37.4 TWh
2024	19.11¢	19.30¢	$120.01	628	1,657,843	36.5 TWh
2023	18.82¢	18.84¢	$115.89	616	1,652,141	36 TWh
2022	18.11¢	17.86¢	$119.00	657	1,645,580	37 TWh
2021	18.13¢	17.54¢	$121.65	671	1,642,642	35.9 TWh
2020	15.59¢	16.26¢	$106.25	681	1,630,424	35 TWh
2019	15.85¢	15.74¢	$102.34	646	1,611,320	36.5 TWh
2018	15.86¢	15.45¢	$107.61	678	1,603,125	37.9 TWh
2017	15.86¢	15.40¢	$102.30	645	1,594,272	37 TWh
2016	15.40¢	15.22¢	$103.59	673	1,584,318	37.6 TWh
2015	14.64¢	14.42¢	$96.68	660	1,577,087	36.9 TWh
2014	14.88¢	14.46¢	$99.23	667	1,574,243	37.2 TWh
2013	14.39¢	14.59¢	$97.47	677	1,573,802	36.6 TWh

Bundled residential service only in the price, bill and use columns. Bill = residential revenue ÷ customers ÷ 12; use = residential sales ÷ customers ÷ 12. EIA describes its early release as not fully edited; it is shown for this utility alone and enters no average, median or rank on this site.

Month by month

Consumers Energy CoMichigan average

Form EIA-861M monthly sample, bundled residential service in Michigan. Preliminary until EIA finalises the year. Latest: 24.31¢ in July 2026, average bill $221.73 on 912 kWh.

Sales by sector, 2024

Sector	Customers	Sales	Share of sales	Revenue	¢ per kWh, bundled
Residential	1,657,843	12.5 TWh	34%	$2,387,568,900	19.11¢
Commercial	235,287	12.9 TWh	35%	$1,809,586,100	14.97¢
Industrial	1,362	11.2 TWh	31%	$737,144,900	8.41¢

Customers, sales and revenue count every service type the utility reported (bundled, energy-only and delivery-only). The price column uses bundled service alone, because part-bill revenue would understate it. Sources of energy: 43 TWh in total, of which 56.4% was its own net generation and 18.8 TWh was bought wholesale; summer peak demand 7,472 MW.

Reliability

SAIDI, all events502.6 min

SAIDI, without major event days155 min

Minutes of sustained interruption per customer in 2024, as the utility reported them under IEEE 1366 standard. SAIFI: 1.32 interruptions per customer with major event days, 0.88 without; CAIDI 379.9 minutes per interruption. EIA's Michigan total across all reporting utilities was 470.4 minutes with major event days and 160.1 without. Major event days are storms and similar events that a utility's chosen method sets apart; methods differ, so treat comparisons as approximate. What SAIDI and SAIFI mean.

Year	SAIDI, all events	SAIDI, no major events	SAIFI, all events	SAIFI, no major events	Method
2025 early release	819.5	163.5	1.40	0.88	IEEE 1366
2024	502.6	155.0	1.32	0.88	IEEE 1366
2023	913.0	176.4	1.37	0.96	IEEE 1366
2022	466.6	182.0	1.29	0.96	IEEE 1366
2021	911.2	227.9	1.60	1.05	IEEE 1366
2020	510.3	194.7	1.35	1.03	IEEE 1366
2019	691.0	233.3	1.58	1.12	IEEE 1366
2018	406.8	200.9	1.29	1.02	IEEE 1366
2017	605.8	160.9	1.31	0.89	IEEE 1366
2016	284.0	207.0	1.15	1.01	IEEE 1366
2015	440.7	177.0	1.18	0.98	IEEE 1366
2014	376.6	168.4	1.10	0.91	IEEE 1366
2013	1,109.0	218.0	2.00	1.00	IEEE 1366

Generation at plants it operates, 2025

Natural gas 59.1% 14.7 TWh
Coal 30.8% 7.7 TWh
Wind 8.7% 2.2 TWh
Hydro 1.4% 343.8 GWh
Petroleum 0.1% 21.5 GWh

Net generation of 24.9 TWh at power plants this utility operates, from Form EIA-923. It is not the mix delivered to customers: utilities also buy power wholesale (18.8 TWh in 2024), sell generation to others and may co-own plants that another company operates.

Counties in its service territory

Counties the utility listed on Form EIA-861 for 2024. Listing a county does not mean the utility serves all of it.

Other utilities in Michigan

Utility	Ownership	Residential customers	¢ per kWh	Monthly bill	SAIDI, all events	SAIDI, no major events
DTE Electric Company	Investor-owned	2,067,779	20.13¢	$122.74	483.0	159.2
Upper Peninsula Power Company	Investor-owned	47,660	27.64¢	$117.40	404.3	186.8
Upper Michigan Energy Resources Corp.	Investor-owned	33,252	14.76¢	$82.79	1,082.0	218.0
Alpena Power Co	Investor-owned	13,763	17.43¢	$91.78	284.2	57.8
Great Lakes Energy Coop	Cooperative	120,645	19.17¢	$117.09	484.4	256.3
City of Lansing	Municipal	87,301	19.78¢	$101.76	91.9	91.9
Cloverland Electric Co-op	Cooperative	36,086	14.37¢	$93.15	534.7	384.6
Cherryland Electric Coop Inc	Cooperative	35,100	16.36¢	$109.78	65.3	65.3

All Michigan utilities · Investor-owned utilities nationwide

Questions and answers

How much does electricity cost from Consumers Energy Co?

Residential customers paid an average of 19.11¢ per kilowatthour in 2024. EIA derives this by dividing residential revenue by residential sales; it is an average across all rate schedules and charges, not a tariff rate.

How does that compare with Michigan?

The Michigan average residential price in 2024 was 19.30¢ and the US average 16.48¢; Consumers Energy Co was about the same as the state figure. Among 30 utility filings with a bundled residential price in Michigan, it had the 9th highest.

What is the average Consumers Energy Co bill?

$120.01 a month in 2024, on average residential use of 628 kWh a month (annual revenue and sales divided by customers and by twelve). The Michigan average was $119.31 on 618 kWh.

How reliable is Consumers Energy Co service?

It reported 502.6 minutes of interruption per customer (SAIDI) including major event days and 155.0 minutes excluding them, with 1.32 interruptions per customer (SAIFI) in 2024. Utilities calculate these under differing methods, so comparisons are approximate.

Is the Consumers Energy Co price rising?

The average residential price was up 1.5% in 2024 compared with 2023 and up 20.6% compared with 2019. EIA's early, not fully edited release for 2025 shows 20.66¢.

Which counties does Consumers Energy Co serve?

Its Form EIA-861 service territory lists 60 counties, including Alcona County, MI, Allegan County, MI, Antrim County, MI, Arenac County, MI, Barry County, MI and Bay County, MI. A county can appear in several utilities' territories.

Provenance

Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration. Annual figures are from Form EIA-861 (sales to ultimate customers, reliability, operational data and service territory files), final release for 2024, respondent "Consumers Energy Co - (MI)", utility number 4254; the 2025 row is from EIA's early release. Monthly utility figures are from the Form EIA-861M sample. State and US averages are from the Form EIA-861M sales and revenue workbook, published through July 2026. Generation by fuel is from Form EIA-923, 2025 final. All are US government works in the public domain. Page built 30 Sep 2026. Errors in processing are corrected at the next build; see corrections. For tariffs and rate schedules, consult the utility or the state utility commission.