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Consumers Energy electric rates and bills

Consumers Energy's 1,662,741 residential customers in Michigan paid an average of 20.66¢ per kWh in 2025, for an average bill of $134.01 a month on 649 kWh.1 Over the last 12 months (Sep 2025–Aug 2026) the average was 21.70¢, and 24.38¢ in August 2026.2

EIA-861 2025 final (released October 7, 2026) and EIA's monthly utility survey through August 2026 (preliminary); next monthly update expected November 24, 2026. Averages are revenue divided by kWh, all charges included: not the rate printed in a tariff.

60 of 83 Michigan counties served (EIA-861 2025)

Consumers Energy's residential customers paid an average of 20.66¢ per kWh in 2025, up 8.1%1 in a year, while DTE Energy's average barely moved, so the order of Michigan's two big utilities flipped. Almost every Consumers home is on a time-varying rate, and storms, more than ordinary days, set its outage total.

What Consumers Energy customers pay per kWh

Consumers Energy delivered and sold electricity to 1,662,741 homes in 2025, 37.3% of Michigan's residential customers, second only to DTE Energy. Those homes paid an average of 20.66¢ per kWh that year: the 3rd highest of the 19 Michigan utilities with 10,000 or more residential customers, 3.1% above the Michigan average and 16.2% above the national average for investor-owned utilities. Among the 177 US utilities with 100,000 or more residential customers it ranked 31st highest of 1771.

That number is average revenue per kWh: everything residential customers were billed, the monthly customer charge, the power supply and delivery charges and the surcharges included, divided by the kWh they used. It is not a line on the tariff, and because nearly all Consumers customers pay different prices at different hours, no single household's cost per kWh need match it.

The two more recent readings are higher. Over the last 12 months (September 2025 to August 2026) the average was 21.70¢ per kWh, and in August 20263 alone 24.38¢ per kWh2. August is a summer month, and summer averages run above the annual figure, so the 12-month figure is the fairer guide to a year of bills; EIA's 2026 monthly figures are preliminary.

A 2025 increase larger than DTE's

From 2024 to 2025 Consumers Energy's residential average rose from 19.11¢ per kWh to 20.66¢ per kWh (+8.1%). Over the same two years DTE Energy's went from 20.13¢ per kWh4 to 20.25¢ per kWh (+0.6%1). In 2024 Consumers customers paid less per kWh than DTE customers; in 2025 they paid more. The state's average rose 3.8%5 over the same period.

Average residential price, Michigan's four largest utilities, 2025
Indiana Michigan Power (MI)17.19¢
DTE Energy (MI)20.25¢
Great Lakes Energy (MI)20.32¢
Consumers Energy (MI)20.66¢

Source: EIA-861 annual electric power industry report, 2025 final. EIA-861 2025 final. Average revenue per kWh is all charges divided by kWh; it is not a tariff rate.

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Utilityaverage residential price (bundled customers)
Indiana Michigan Power (MI)17.19¢
DTE Energy (MI)20.25¢
Great Lakes Energy (MI)20.32¢
Consumers Energy (MI)20.66¢

The other two large utilities in the state sit on either side. The cooperative Great Lakes Energy averaged 20.32¢ per kWh in 2025, close to both, and Indiana Michigan Power 17.19¢ per kWh1. Which one serves a home is set by the address, not chosen.

The rise has continued into 2026 in EIA's monthly sample. The August 20263 average of 24.38¢ per kWh was +10.6% on the same month a year earlier; DTE's was +13.6%2. Consumers Energy's rates are approved by the Michigan Public Service Commission in rate cases; the guide to rate increases explains how those decisions reach a bill.

Consumers Energy: residential price each month, Jan 2025 to Aug 2026
Consumers Energy: residential price each month, Jan 2025 to Aug 202616¢18¢20¢22¢24¢20252026

Source: EIA-861M monthly sales and revenue by utility; EIA, Electric Power Monthly / EIA-861M sales and revenue by state. Residential revenue divided by kWh in each month, as reported to EIA's monthly survey (EIA-861M; months since January 2026 preliminary).

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MonthConsumers Energy (¢/kWh)kWh per customerBill per customer
January 202518.93¢725$137.12
February 202519.10¢626$119.55
March 202519.39¢578$112.15
April 202520.00¢518$103.65
May 202520.48¢517$105.88
June 202521.86¢748$163.60
July 202521.99¢915$201.22
August 202522.04¢772$170.23
September 202522.36¢556$124.32
October 202520.69¢535$110.80
November 202520.17¢579$116.84
December 202520.03¢713$142.73
January 202620.11¢736$147.98
February 202620.27¢607$123.12
March 202620.53¢587$120.44
April 202620.47¢516$105.68
May 202621.48¢543$116.59
June 202623.76¢659$156.60
July 202624.31¢912$221.73
August 202624.38¢754$183.69

Why the bill rose faster than the price

The average monthly bill went from $120.01 in 2024 to $134.01 in 2025, +11.7%. Two things moved at once: the price per kWh rose 8.1%, and use per home went from 628 kWh4 to 649 kWh a month. DTE's bill changed by +2.7%, to $126.061.

Use per home is still low by national standards. Michigan's 635 kWh a month in 2025 was the 9th lowest6 among the states, and Consumers' 649 kWh1 was close to it. Over the last 12 months Consumers customers averaged 642 kWh for a bill of $139.232.

Summer bills run highest

Use per home peaks in summer. In the 12 months to August 2026 it ranged from 516 kWh in April 2026 to 912 kWh in July 2026, and the average bill in those two months from $105.68 to $221.732. The bill grew proportionally more than the kWh behind it because the average price per kWh was also higher in summer.

Consumers Energy: average residential use and bill by month

Source: EIA-861M monthly sales and revenue by utility. kWh per residential customer in each month (EIA-861M; months since January 2026 preliminary). The table adds the average bill and price for the month.

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MonthkWh per customerBill per customer¢/kWh
September 2025556$124.3222.36¢
October 2025535$110.8020.69¢
November 2025579$116.8420.17¢
December 2025713$142.7320.03¢
January 2026736$147.9820.11¢
February 2026607$123.1220.27¢
March 2026587$120.4420.53¢
April 2026516$105.6820.47¢
May 2026543$116.5921.48¢
June 2026659$156.6023.76¢
July 2026912$221.7324.31¢
August 2026754$183.6924.38¢

Nearly every home on a time-varying rate

Consumers Energy reported 1,646,325 residential customers enrolled in time-varying pricing in 2025, 99.0% of its residential customers, across time-of-use, critical peak pricing and critical peak rebates. At DTE Energy the share was 1.1%. Consumers alone accounts for most of the 39.0% of Michigan's residential customers on such rates, the 5th highest share among the states. Advanced meters, which record use by the hour, were installed at 99.5%7 of its homes.

Under a time-of-use rate, the same kWh costs more in the peak hours than at other times, so two homes with identical monthly use can get different bills. The peak hours, the months they apply and the price of each period are set in the tariff Consumers files with the state commission and printed on its rate pages; EIA's data record enrollment, not those hours.

Rooftop solar is more common on Consumers' system than at DTE: 12,024 residential net-metered installations in 2025, 7.2 per 1,000 customers and 96.2 megawatts in total, against 5.67 per 1,000 at DTE.

Outage minutes come mostly on storm days

Consumers Energy customers averaged 819 minutes without power in 2025 when every event is counted, more than the Michigan average of 672 minutes, with 1.40 interruptions per customer. Excluding major event days, the days of unusually widespread outages that utilities report separately under the IEEE 1366 standard, the figure was 163 minutes. On ordinary days, then, Consumers looked much like DTE (151 minutes); the difference between the two came from major events, which took DTE's total only to 192 minutes. Michigan as a whole had the 2nd highest8 outage time per customer among the states.

Minutes without power per customer, 2025, major events included
DTE Energy (MI)192
Consumers Energy (MI)819
Indiana Michigan Power (MI)932
Great Lakes Energy (MI)4,401

Source: EIA-861 2025, reliability. EIA-861 2025 final. Average revenue per kWh is all charges divided by kWh; it is not a tariff rate.

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Utilityoutage minutes per customer (all events)
DTE Energy (MI)192
Consumers Energy (MI)819
Indiana Michigan Power (MI)932
Great Lakes Energy (MI)4,401

Most of the Lower Peninsula, almost all of it shared

EIA's service-territory records place Consumers Energy in 60 counties, far more than DTE's 25. In 56 of them at least one other distribution utility, a city utility, a cooperative or DTE, also reports customers, and in only 49 is Consumers the sole one. A county or town name therefore does not settle which utility serves a home; Consumers' own service map does, by address.

Counties where Consumers Energy reports customers in Michigan
Counties where Consumers Energy reports customers in MichiganAlcona County: Consumers Energy reports service, with 2 other utilitiesAlger County: not served by Consumers EnergyAllegan County: Consumers Energy reports service, with 4 other utilitiesAlpena County: not served by Consumers EnergyAntrim County: Consumers Energy reports service, with 1 other utilityArenac County: Consumers Energy reports service (no other utility reported)Baraga County: not served by Consumers EnergyBarry County: Consumers Energy reports service, with 2 other utilitiesBay County: Consumers Energy reports service, with 2 other utilitiesBenzie County: Consumers Energy reports service, with 1 other utilityBerrien County: not served by Consumers EnergyBranch County: Consumers Energy reports service, with 3 other utilitiesCalhoun County: Consumers Energy reports service, with 1 other utilityCass County: not served by Consumers EnergyCharlevoix County: Consumers Energy reports service, with 2 other utilitiesCheboygan County: Consumers Energy reports service, with 2 other utilitiesChippewa County: not served by Consumers EnergyClare County: Consumers Energy reports service, with 2 other utilitiesClinton County: Consumers Energy reports service, with 2 other utilitiesCrawford County: Consumers Energy reports service, with 1 other utilityDelta County: not served by Consumers EnergyDickinson County: not served by Consumers EnergyEaton County: Consumers Energy reports service, with 3 other utilitiesEmmet County: Consumers Energy reports service, with 4 other utilitiesGenesee County: Consumers Energy reports service, with 1 other utilityGladwin County: Consumers Energy reports service, with 1 other utilityGogebic County: not served by Consumers EnergyGrand Traverse County: Consumers Energy reports service, with 3 other utilitiesGratiot County: Consumers Energy reports service, with 3 other utilitiesHillsdale County: Consumers Energy reports service, with 1 other utilityHoughton County: not served by Consumers EnergyHuron County: not served by Consumers EnergyIngham County: Consumers Energy reports service, with 3 other utilitiesIonia County: Consumers Energy reports service, with 2 other utilitiesIosco County: Consumers Energy reports service (no other utility reported)Iron County: not served by Consumers EnergyIsabella County: Consumers Energy reports service, with 2 other utilitiesJackson County: Consumers Energy reports service, with 1 other utilityKalamazoo County: Consumers Energy reports service, with 2 other utilitiesKalkaska County: Consumers Energy reports service, with 2 other utilitiesKent County: Consumers Energy reports service, with 2 other utilitiesKeweenaw County: not served by Consumers EnergyLake County: Consumers Energy reports service, with 1 other utilityLapeer County: Consumers Energy reports service, with 1 other utilityLeelanau County: Consumers Energy reports service, with 2 other utilitiesLenawee County: Consumers Energy reports service, with 3 other utilitiesLivingston County: Consumers Energy reports service, with 1 other utilityLuce County: not served by Consumers EnergyMackinac County: not served by Consumers EnergyMacomb County: not served by Consumers EnergyManistee County: Consumers Energy reports service, with 2 other utilitiesMarquette County: not served by Consumers EnergyMason County: Consumers Energy reports service, with 1 other utilityMecosta County: Consumers Energy reports service, with 2 other utilitiesMenominee County: not served by Consumers EnergyMidland County: Consumers Energy reports service, with 1 other utilityMissaukee County: Consumers Energy reports service, with 1 other utilityMonroe County: Consumers Energy reports service, with 2 other utilitiesMontcalm County: Consumers Energy reports service, with 3 other utilitiesMontmorency County: Consumers Energy reports service, with 3 other utilitiesMuskegon County: Consumers Energy reports service, with 1 other utilityNewaygo County: Consumers Energy reports service, with 1 other utilityOakland County: Consumers Energy reports service, with 1 other utilityOceana County: Consumers Energy reports service, with 2 other utilitiesOgemaw County: Consumers Energy reports service (no other utility reported)Ontonagon County: not served by Consumers EnergyOsceola County: Consumers Energy reports service, with 2 other utilitiesOscoda County: Consumers Energy reports service, with 2 other utilitiesOtsego County: Consumers Energy reports service, with 2 other utilitiesOttawa County: Consumers Energy reports service, with 4 other utilitiesPresque Isle County: Consumers Energy reports service, with 3 other utilitiesRoscommon County: Consumers Energy reports service (no other utility reported)Saginaw County: Consumers Energy reports service, with 2 other utilitiesSt. Clair County: not served by Consumers EnergySt. Joseph County: Consumers Energy reports service, with 3 other utilitiesSanilac County: not served by Consumers EnergySchoolcraft County: not served by Consumers EnergyShiawassee County: Consumers Energy reports service, with 1 other utilityTuscola County: Consumers Energy reports service, with 2 other utilitiesVan Buren County: Consumers Energy reports service, with 4 other utilitiesWashtenaw County: Consumers Energy reports service, with 3 other utilitiesWayne County: not served by Consumers EnergyWexford County: Consumers Energy reports service, with 2 other utilities

Source: EIA-861 2025, service territory; Census Bureau, Cartographic boundary file, counties. EIA-861 2025 service territory: 60 counties. Counts whole counties even where the utility serves only part of one; check the utility's own service-area map for an address.

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CountyOther utilities reporting service
Alcona CountyPresque Isle Electric & Gas Cooperative, Alpena Power Co
Allegan CountyGreat Lakes Energy, Indiana Michigan Power, City of Holland, City of South Haven
Antrim CountyGreat Lakes Energy
Arenac Countynone
Barry CountyGreat Lakes Energy, Tri-County Electric Cooperative
Bay CountyDTE Energy, City of Bay City
Benzie CountyCherryland Electric Cooperative
Branch CountyDTE Energy, Coldwater Board of Public Util, Village of Union City
Calhoun CountyCity of Marshall
Charlevoix CountyGreat Lakes Energy, City of Charlevoix
Cheboygan CountyGreat Lakes Energy, Presque Isle Electric & Gas Cooperative
Clare CountyGreat Lakes Energy, Tri-County Electric Cooperative
Clinton CountyCity of Lansing, Tri-County Electric Cooperative
Crawford CountyGreat Lakes Energy
Eaton CountyCity of Lansing, Tri-County Electric Cooperative, City of Eaton Rapids
Emmet CountyGreat Lakes Energy, Presque Isle Electric & Gas Cooperative, City of Petoskey, City of Harbor Springs
Genesee CountyDTE Energy
Gladwin CountyDTE Energy
Grand Traverse CountyGreat Lakes Energy, Cherryland Electric Cooperative, City of Traverse City
Gratiot CountyDTE Energy, Tri-County Electric Cooperative, City of St Louis
Hillsdale CountyHillsdale Board of Public Wks
Ingham CountyDTE Energy, City of Lansing, Tri-County Electric Cooperative
Ionia CountyTri-County Electric Cooperative, City of Portland
Iosco Countynone
Isabella CountyDTE Energy, Tri-County Electric Cooperative
Jackson CountyTri-County Electric Cooperative
Kalamazoo CountyIndiana Michigan Power, Midwest Energy Cooperative
Kalkaska CountyGreat Lakes Energy, Cherryland Electric Cooperative
Kent CountyGreat Lakes Energy, City of Lowell
Lake CountyGreat Lakes Energy
Lapeer CountyDTE Energy
Leelanau CountyCherryland Electric Cooperative, City of Traverse City
Lenawee CountyDTE Energy, Midwest Energy Cooperative, Village of Clinton
Livingston CountyDTE Energy
Manistee CountyGreat Lakes Energy, Cherryland Electric Cooperative
Mason CountyGreat Lakes Energy
Mecosta CountyGreat Lakes Energy, Tri-County Electric Cooperative
Midland CountyDTE Energy
Missaukee CountyGreat Lakes Energy
Monroe CountyDTE Energy, Midwest Energy Cooperative
Montcalm CountyDTE Energy, Great Lakes Energy, Tri-County Electric Cooperative
Montmorency CountyGreat Lakes Energy, Presque Isle Electric & Gas Cooperative, Alpena Power Co
Muskegon CountyGreat Lakes Energy
Newaygo CountyGreat Lakes Energy
Oakland CountyDTE Energy
Oceana CountyGreat Lakes Energy, City of Hart Hydro
Ogemaw Countynone
Osceola CountyGreat Lakes Energy, Tri-County Electric Cooperative
Oscoda CountyGreat Lakes Energy, Presque Isle Electric & Gas Cooperative
Otsego CountyGreat Lakes Energy, Presque Isle Electric & Gas Cooperative
Ottawa CountyGreat Lakes Energy, City of Holland, City of Grand Haven, City of Zeeland
Presque Isle CountyDTE Energy, Presque Isle Electric & Gas Cooperative, Alpena Power Co
Roscommon Countynone
Saginaw CountyDTE Energy, Tri-County Electric Cooperative
Shiawassee CountyDTE Energy
St. Joseph CountyIndiana Michigan Power, Midwest Energy Cooperative, City of Sturgis
Tuscola CountyDTE Energy, Thumb Electric Cooperative of Mich
Van Buren CountyIndiana Michigan Power, Midwest Energy Cooperative, City of South Haven, Village of Paw Paw
Washtenaw CountyDTE Energy, Village of Chelsea, Village of Clinton
Wexford CountyGreat Lakes Energy, Cherryland Electric Cooperative

Businesses and the all-customer average

Commercial customers paid 16.22¢ per kWh on average in 2025, with a monthly bill of $684.93, and its 1,224 industrial accounts 8.95¢ per kWh. DTE's commercial average was lower, at 13.93¢ per kWh. Across all 1,900,985 Consumers Energy customers the average was 16.01¢ per kWh1.

Households struggling with a bill can apply for federal energy assistance: Michigan received $183.3 million11 from LIHEAP for fiscal 2026. The help paying your electric bill guide explains how to apply. For the statewide picture, see electricity in Michigan.

Questions and answers

How much does Consumers Energy charge per kWh?

Its residential customers paid an average of 20.66¢ per kWh1 in 2025 and 21.70¢ per kWh2 over the last 12 months (September 2025 to August 2026, preliminary for 2026). These are total residential charges divided by kWh, so they include the monthly customer charge and riders; the per-kWh lines in the tariff are lower and differ by hour and season.

What is the average Consumers Energy electric bill?

$134.01 a month in 2025 for 649 kWh1, against $120.014 in 2024. Over the last 12 months the monthly average ran from $105.68 in April 2026 to $221.73 in July 20262.

Did Consumers Energy rates go up in 2026?

EIA's monthly data say yes on average. In August 20263 residential customers paid 24.38¢ per kWh, +10.6% against the same month of 2025, and the 12 months to August 2026 averaged 21.70¢ per kWh2, above the 2025 figure of 20.66¢ per kWh1. The 2026 months are preliminary.

Can I buy electricity from someone other than Consumers Energy?

EIA's 2025 figures show almost no homes buying from an alternative supplier (0.0%1 of residential customers), so in practice Consumers Energy both delivers and sells the electricity in the homes it serves.

Related pages

Sources

  1. EIA-861 annual electric power industry report, 2025 final; table Sales_Ult_Cust_2025; 2025, final; released October 7, 2026. www.eia.gov
  2. EIA-861M monthly sales and revenue by utility; table sales_ult_cust_2025 and _2026; released October 23, 2026. www.eia.gov
  3. EIA, Electric Power Monthly / EIA-861M sales and revenue by state; table sales_revenue.xlsx (EPM Table 5.6.A); January 2001 to 2026-08; months since January 2026 preliminary; released October 23, 2026. www.eia.gov
  4. EIA-861 annual electric power industry report, 2024 final; table Sales_Ult_Cust_2024; 2024, final (file updated December 3, 2025); released December 3, 2025. www.eia.gov
  5. EIA, Historical state data, annual sales, revenue and customers; table HS861 2010-.xlsx; 2010-2025, final; released October 7, 2026. www.eia.gov
  6. EIA-861 2025, average monthly bill by state; table Average_Bill_2025; 2025, final; released October 7, 2026. www.eia.gov
  7. EIA-861 2025, advanced meters, dynamic pricing and net metering; table Advanced_Meters, Dynamic_Pricing, Net_Metering 2025; 2025, final; released October 7, 2026. www.eia.gov
  8. EIA-861 2025, reliability; table Reliability_2025; 2025, final; released October 7, 2026. www.eia.gov
  9. EIA-861 2025, service territory; table Service_Territory_2025; 2025, final; released October 7, 2026. www.eia.gov
  10. Census Bureau, Cartographic boundary file, counties; table cb_2025_us_county_5m; cb_2021_us_county_5m; 2025 (2021 for Connecticut). www.census.gov
  11. HHS, LIHEAP funding releases to states; table FY2027 first release; FY2026 final; FY2027 first release (October 9, 2026); FY2026 total; released October 9, 2026. acf.gov

How every figure is built: methodology. Found an error? Write to [email protected]; corrections are listed on the updates page.