Lansing — Michigan Natural Resources Commissioners on Wednesday grilled executives from Consumers Energy and Confluence Hydro on the companies' plan for the private equity company to buy Consumers' 13 ...

Consumers Energy and Confluence Hydro provided an update on the sale of 13 hydroelectric dams owned by Consumers Energy. Consumers Energy is offering a new $270 million Hydro Safety Fund to protect ...

LANSING, MI — Consumers Energy’s plan to sell 13 hydroelectric dams to a private equity-backed firm would allow the new owner resell or stop operating the dams without state approval, according to ...

LANSING, MI — Consumers Energy wants state regulators to approve a 30-year deal that would involve paying a private buyer twice the market rate for comparable hydropower in exchange for selling its ...

Critics of Consumers Energy's plan to sell its hydropower dams in Michigan are warning the buyer might have its eye on the land surrounding the impoundments more than the electricity-generating ...

Water quality problems caused by six of Consumers Energy Co.'s 13 hydroelectric dams threaten to complicate the utility's controversial plan to sell the dams to a Maryland private equity company. The ...

JACKSON, Mich. (WJRT) - Consumers Energy is creating a $270 million Hydro Safety Fund to protect Michigan communities as part of its proposed sale of 13 hydroelectric dams to Maryland-based private ...

LANSING, Mich., April 8, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Consumers Energy officials told a state commission today that selling 13 hydroelectric dams remains the best option for Michigan, supporting local ...