MICHIGAN
Consumers Energy crews have restored power to more than 132,000 customers as of 10 p.m. on Monday, and continued working through the night, restoring the majority of remaining customers Tuesday.
Extreme weather and high wind gusts over 65 mph swept through the state over the weekend, knocking down more than 2,000 powerlines.
“Consumers Energy crews plan to continue working through the night to address outages and get power back on as quickly as possible,” said Christine Wisniewski, one of Consumers Energy’s Officers in Charge for the event. “This was a significant storm with massive damage across the state, yet our dedicated crews have already restored power for nearly 85 percent of customers, and they are not letting up. We remain confident the majority of customers will have their power back on tomorrow.”
Consumers Energy prioritized restoring power to polling locations impacted by the extreme weather, and worked with the Secretary of State’s office and local clerks to ensure a successful in-person voting experience yesterday.
Customers can report an outage and check the status of outage by visiting www. ConsumersEnergy.com/ OutageCenter. They can also sign up to get outage alerts and restoration times sent to a phone, email or text message, Text ‘REG’ to 232273 or visit www.ConsumersEnergy. com/alerts.