![]() This winter's rare onslaught of high winds and ice storms, usually a spring phenomenon, has created a huge maintenance crisis but also a public relations headache for Michigan's two giant electric utilities, drawing online barbs from countless Michiganders as well as also sharp questions from political leaders about the state's seeming failures in power reliability and the rising cost of energy here. ![]() There was a fresh one-tenth to two-tenths of ice on trees in central Oakland County and a report of ice coating trees in Warren as well, as of Monday night, said Steve Freitag, staff meteorologist at the National Weather Service in White Lake. More bad weather at dusk on Monday was further slowing repair efforts in metro Detroit, as rain changed to sleet and began coating tree branches in some areas, the National Weather Service reported. ![]() (Each customer represents an electric meter, so some customers comprised families or work sites affecting many people.) As of the same time, Consumers Energy said it had restored more than 200,000 customers who'd lost power last week but the utility still had about 73,000 customers without electricity. Monday night, the outage total was back up to nearly 50,000 customers, although the utility said it was making good progress on restoring power. By early evening Monday, Michigan's two biggest utilities - DTE and Consumers - had restored power to hundreds of thousands of customers who lost it last week, yet they were playing catch-up as fresh winds and storms brought new outages.Īt daybreak Monday, DTE had just 30,000 customers to restore of the 600,000 who were in the dark after last Wednesday's ice storm. More bad weather has slowed and even set back efforts to restore power to Michiganders in the dark. We urge you to keep reporting outages when needed and use these new features to help make the process to fix them even faster and safer for our team.Watch Video: Tips for dealing with power outages We hope that the Streetlight Outage Reporting Tool has made it easier for you and your constituents reporting streetlight outages to keep your community safe. those requiring traffic control or have bad underground etc.), as well as lights from pin drops that we have determined to not be Consumers Energy lights, thereby preventing others from reporting it to us again. More statuses of lights on the map: We have also added a status for lights in Extended Repair (ie.By simply providing your Email, phone or notification # you are able to quick see the outage(s) you have submitted. Check outage Status: Given that you report many outages within your municipality it is important that you are able to easily get a listing of those outages and status of each.In addition to that, we will add the light details to our database and make sure it is visible on our map. Our team will review the report to confirm it belongs to Consumer’s Energy, and dispatch a truck out as quickly as possible fix it. We urge you to give as much detail as possible when describing the issue, and even attach a photo of the light. With this feature, we are allowing you to zoom into the area where there is a missing light and drop a pin in the exact location of that light. Drop a pin: We know that we are missing some lights on the map.Information in the photo will also allow service workers to locate the light more quickly when they are at the site. ![]() Information in the photo will allow schedulers to see what the issue is to properly dispatch a service worker to the light. Upload a photo: With this feature, you will be able to choose a photo from your device gallery, or allow the tool to connect to your camera to safely take a photo of the streetlight in question.These new features are available now in the Consumer’s Energy Streetlight Outage Reporting Tool: These new features will give our schedulers and service workers even more details for finding and fixing streetlights quickly and safely. Exciting News!! Streetlight Outage Reporting ToolĬonsumers Energy has made additional updates to the Streetlight Outage Reporting Tool. ![]()
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