LANSING -- A report finds more Michigan businesses and industries buying electricity from alternative suppliers - reversing a slide of several years.
The Michigan Public Service Commission report Tuesday shows a 46 percent increase in business customers choosing suppliers other than Detroit Edison and Consumers Energy in 2009.
Last year's report found a 23 percent decrease in 2008. Commission spokeswoman Judy Palnau said customers' interest in choice is growing because they're likely finding more attractive rates among Michigan's 24 licensed alternative electric suppliers.
Michigan's 2008 energy law limits electric choice to 10 percent of a utility's weather-adjusted sales for the past year. Both utilities reached the cap in 2009.
