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schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001104659-22-073926"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "CMS-PB"
cik: "0000201533"
company_name: "CONSUMERS ENERGY CO"
filed_at: "2022-06-23T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-24T23:45:06.848834+00:00"
event_type: "regulatory"
sentiment: "positive"
materiality_score: 0.75
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.75
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Michigan regulators approve Consumers Energy plan to end coal by 2025, add 8 GW solar

## Summary
- MPSC approved integrated resource plan settlement; coal plant retirements by 2025 (15 years faster).
- Plans to add nearly 8,000 MW of solar by 2040 and 75 MW of battery storage by 2027 (550 MW by 2040).
- Will purchase Covert Generating Station (natural gas) and use RFP for 700 MW of capacity to ensure reliability.
- Estimated $600 million customer savings through 2040; continued bill assistance for low-income customers.
- Consumers Energy (CMS Energy subsidiary) serves 6.8 million Michigan residents across 68 counties.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001104659-22-073926
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: CMS-PB
- cik: 0000201533
- company_name: CONSUMERS ENERGY CO
- filed_at: 2022-06-23T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: regulatory
- sentiment: positive
- materiality_score: 0.75
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.75
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 8.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/201533/000110465922073926/0001104659-22-073926-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/201533/000110465922073926/tm2219261d1_8k.htm

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