Michigan in Focus
Michigan in Focus
America's Talking Network
Michigan Utilities Focus on Trees to Trim Power Outages
3 minutes Posted Aug 17, 2023 at 8:00 pm.
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Multiple times in 2021, Michigan’s utilities left more than 100,000 people in the dark after powerful storms uprooted trees and left inches of ice coating power lines – more than its Midwest neighbors, according to federal data. The U.S. Energy Information Administration’s annual 2021 electric power report says Michiganders faced more than 800 minutes of electric interruptions in 2021 that lasted longer than five minutes – nearly double the national total and more than its Midwest neighbors.

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