A whole bunch of hundreds of Michigan residents who had been with out energy for days after a storm on Monday, Aug. 29, can apply for a $25 credit score from the utility corporations.

The Michigan Public Service Fee mandates the credit score and units the factors to use:

–An outage of greater than 120 hours beneath catastrophic situations, outlined as an occasion that leads to an official state of emergency or an occasion that leads to an interruption of 10% or extra of the utility’s prospects.
–An outage of greater than 16 hours beneath non-catastrophic situations.

–Eight or extra outages throughout a 12-month interval. As soon as a credit score has been obtained, the 12-month interval resets.

An influence outage consists of full or partial lack of service for longer than 5 minutes. Your account have to be open to qualify for a credit score.

DTE Vitality serves a lot of Oakland County; it reported greater than 260,000 prospects with out energy after Monday’s storm; that constituted a minimum of 10% of its complete prospects, qualifying for the catastrophic designation, mentioned spokeswoman Marquia Mann.

DTE prospects can study extra or apply for the credit score at https://newlook.dteenergy.com/.

Customers Vitality serves about 1.Eight million Michigan prospects; about 185,000 had been with out energy after Monday’s storm. That constitutes greater than 10%, so the occasion qualifies for the catastrophic situation, mentioned Terry DeDoes, a Customers spokesman.

Customers serves about 8,600 prospects within the northwestern quadrant of Oakland County, he mentioned.

For extra info or to use for the credit score, go to www.consumersenergy.com/outages