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Upper Peninsula Power Company
UPPCO rates rose 26% since 2019 — the average bill went from $97 to $117 a month.
Computed as revenue ÷ sales from UPPCO’s own EIA-861 filings, 2019–2024. Not adjusted for inflation. See where that ranks.
The Michigan Public Service Commission sets your rates
Rate changes go through a public docket. Filings, hearing dates, and comment deadlines are matters of public record, and you can file a comment on them.
Dates you could act on
- November 10, 2026U-22088 · prehearing conference
Remote prehearing conference before ALJ Sarah A. Stancati; any interested person may participate.
What is still undecided
These cases are open before the Commission — some are UPPCO’s own requests, others the Commission opened on its own motion. Undecided is the only window in which a comment from you counts for anything, so these are the ones worth watching.
- U-22032notice PDFRequested$17.3M
Upper Peninsula Power Company has asked the Michigan Public Service Commission to raise its electric rates, saying it needs about $17.3 million more in base rate revenue and a return on common equity of at least 10.55%, with new rates in place by March 22, 2027. It also asks the Commission to approve a State Reliability Mechanism Capacity Charge of $27,823 per MW-Year. Customers can join or listen to the prehearing on June 25, 2026 by video/teleconference, file a written comment in Case No. U-22032 at any time, or petition to intervene as a formal party by June 18, 2026.
This case concerns Upper Peninsula Power Company's amended renewable energy plan filed to comply with a 2023 state law. In the December 19, 2024 order, the Commission gave the company more time to file the plan, moving the deadline from January 17, 2025 to February 6, 2025, and declined for now to combine this case with the company's resource planning case. A hearing notice then set a prehearing conference for March 13, 2025. No rates or charges were changed by these documents, so there is no effect on a residential bill at this stage.
- U-21684notice PDF
Upper Peninsula Power Company has asked the Michigan Public Service Commission to approve its four-year Energy Waste Reduction plan and the related surcharges customers would pay, with the revised surcharges proposed to start January 1, 2026. A prehearing is set for August 11, 2025 by video/teleconference, and anyone wanting to become a party must file to intervene by August 4, 2025. Customers may also send written comments referencing Case No. U-21684 to the Commission by email or mail, or attend the hearing to make a statement.
- U-22088notice PDF
Upper Peninsula Power Company has asked the Michigan Public Service Commission to approve its plan for recovering power supply costs during 2027, including a power supply cost recovery factor of $0.02932 per kWh (or $0.00313 per kWh if a new PSCR base rate is approved) and the roll-in of past and forecasted under-recoveries. A prehearing is set for November 10, 2026, by video or teleconference. Customers can send a written comment referencing Case No. U-22088 to the Commission, attend the hearing to make a statement, or file a petition to intervene by November 3, 2026.
What changed your bill
- Requested$4.4MApproved$4.4M
The Commission approved a settlement between Upper Peninsula Power Company and Commission Staff resolving the company's review of its 2025 power supply costs. The settlement finds that UPPCO collected less from customers than its power supply costs in 2025, leaving a total cumulative under-recovery of $4,381,465, slightly less than the $4,388,807 the company originally requested. That amount, which includes a $1,170,265 under-recovery carried over from 2024 plus interest, becomes the starting balance in the company's 2026 power supply cost reconciliation and will be collected from customers through that later process. The order does not itself state a change to a typical residential monthly bill.
- Requested$1.2MApproved$1.2M
The Commission approved a settlement agreement between Upper Peninsula Power Company and Commission Staff that closes out the company's 2024 power supply cost recovery accounting for the 12 months ending December 31, 2024. The order finds that the company collected $1,170,265 less from customers than its actual power supply costs, and directs the company to carry that underrecovery forward as the starting balance in its 2025 power supply cost recovery reconciliation. The order does not itself set a new residential rate or state a monthly bill change; the unrecovered amount will be addressed through the 2025 reconciliation.
Everything else on the docket (10)
Procedural orders, reconciliations, and cases where no approved figure could be sourced. Kept for completeness — none of these carries a number we can tie to your bill.
- Requested$0.4M
The Commission approved a settlement between Upper Peninsula Power Company (UPPCO) and Commission Staff that closes out the company's energy waste reduction (EWR) program costs and revenues for the 12 months ending December 31, 2025. The settlement finds a net cumulative over-recovery of $376,184 through December 31, 2025 and a financial incentive payment to the company of $617,106 for 2025; UPPCO's application had instead proposed a net under-collection of $378,783 and an incentive of $636,306. UPPCO will put revised EWR surcharges into effect January 1, 2027 to return the over-recovery and collect the incentive payment; for residential service the EWR surcharge is set at $0.00640093 per kWh. UPPCO was also allowed to defer development costs for its multi-year efficient electrification plan and seek recovery of them later.
The Commission approved a settlement agreement between Upper Peninsula Power Company and Commission Staff that closes out the company's renewable energy cost reconciliation for the 12 months ending December 31, 2025. The settlement states the company was not authorized to charge, and did not collect, a renewable energy surcharge during that period, so there were no revenues or expenses to reconcile. No change to residential bills results from this order.
The Commission approved a settlement agreement between Upper Peninsula Power Company and Commission Staff covering the company's power supply cost recovery (PSCR) plan for the 12 months ending December 31, 2026. The settlement authorizes UPPCO to bill a ceiling PSCR factor of $0.02342 per kilowatt-hour to retail electric customers through the December 2026 billing month; the company had originally proposed a factor of $0.02090 per kilowatt-hour. The factor is the portion of a customer's bill that covers fuel and purchased power costs, and it includes recovery of a prior-period under-recovery updated to $4,306,192. UPPCO must file a tariff sheet reflecting the approved factor within 30 days.
The Commission approved Upper Peninsula Power Company's continued operation of its voluntary green pricing program, which lets customers choose to have some or all of their electricity matched with renewable energy. The company proposed no changes to the program, its pricing, or its tariff. The Commission noted that the approval does not increase rates or the cost of service for any customer, so residential bills are unaffected. The company must keep filing reports on program enrollment and costs every April 1 and October 1.
This case concerns Upper Peninsula Power Company's integrated resource plan, which is its long-term plan for how it will supply electricity. On October 9, 2025, the Commission approved a settlement agreement among the company, Commission Staff, and other participants that sets the plan: keeping the company's existing hydroelectric plants, the Gladstone oil-fired turbine, and demand response programs; keeping existing solar projects and adding a 37.5 MW solar purchase agreement and a 1 MW hydroelectric purchase agreement; and increasing the energy waste reduction target to 2.17% of electric load. The Commission also approved the company's amended renewable energy plan, directed it to file a new resource plan within five years, and allowed it to record its case costs for possible recovery in a future rate case. This order does not set customer rates, so it states no change to a residential monthly bill.
The Commission approved a settlement between Upper Peninsula Power Company and Commission Staff that closes out the company's energy waste reduction (energy efficiency) program costs and surcharge collections for the 12 months ending December 31, 2024. The settlement found a cumulative over-collection of $621,817 through December 31, 2024, and allows the company to collect a 2024 performance incentive payment of $686,715. Revised energy waste reduction surcharges take effect with the first billing month after the order was issued; the residential surcharge is $0.00642 per kilowatt-hour, which is added to the distribution charge on the bill. The order does not state a dollar change for a typical monthly residential bill.
Upper Peninsula Power Company asked the Commission to review its renewable energy revenues and expenses for the 12 months ending December 31, 2024. The company and Commission Staff reached a settlement agreement, which the Commission approved. Because UPPCO was not authorized to charge and did not collect a renewable energy surcharge during that period, there were no revenues or expenses to reconcile. This order does not change residential bills.
These orders concern Upper Peninsula Power Company's integrated resource plan docket and the replacement of a 125 megawatt solar power purchase agreement that was cancelled. In August 2024 the Commission approved a 15-year power purchase agreement with Copper Country Power I LLC for the output of a 62.5 megawatt solar project in Dickinson County, and in June 2025 it approved UPPCo's purchase and construction agreements for the company-owned 62.5 megawatt Republic Solar Project in Marquette County. The Commission stated that these approvals do not change rates or rate schedules and will not increase the cost of service to customers, so there is no direct change to a residential bill from these orders. The Commission did not rule on whether the project costs are reasonable or prudent beyond their consistency with the approved resource plan.
The Commission granted Upper Peninsula Power Company's request to extend a temporary waiver from a reporting rule requiring it to report the number of customers who experience very short (momentary) power interruptions. The waiver was extended until April 30, 2027, because the company's metering and outage software cannot yet collect that data. This order does not change rates, so it has no effect on residential bills.
The Commission approved a settlement agreement between Upper Peninsula Power Company and Commission Staff covering the company's power supply cost recovery plan for the 12 months ending December 31, 2025. The company may charge a ceiling power supply cost recovery factor of $0.01422 per kilowatt-hour on retail electric customers' monthly bills for the January through December 2025 billing months, which consists of a $0.01375 plan-year factor plus $0.00047 for prior-year under-recovery. The order also accepts the company's five-year power supply forecast and allows recovery through the power supply cost recovery mechanism of prudently incurred costs and credits tied to financial transmission rights. The bill effect for a household depends on how much electricity it uses; for example, 500 kilowatt-hours of usage would carry about $7.11 in power supply cost recovery charges.
Every figure is quoted from the order it came from — hover a number to see the exact sentence and page. Figures without a quote in the source are not shown at all. Extracted figures are machine-read and not yet checked by a person.
Large load watch
Who pays for the data centers
A single hyperscale data center can ask for more power than a small city. The question in front of the Commission is not whether they get it — it is what they have to commit to in order to get it, and who absorbs the cost of the poles, wires, and generation built for them if the project shrinks or never arrives.
In U-22061, DTE Electric asked to rewrite its Rate D11 and add a provision for customers taking more than 100 MW: a minimum monthly bill regardless of how much power is actually used, administrative fees, a fee for walking away, and collateral up front. Those terms are the difference between a data center carrying its own risk and residential customers carrying it. UPPCO has not filed a large-load provision of its own. What the Commission approves here is the template the rest of Michigan’s regulated utilities will be measured against.
DTE Electric has asked the Michigan Public Service Commission to change its Rate D11 and add a new provision for very large electricity users, such as customers needing more than 100 MW, including a minimum monthly billing amount, administrative fees, a termination fee, and collateral requirements. The Commission has not decided the case; a prehearing is set for April 28, 2026 by video/teleconference. Customers can attend that hearing, file a written comment referencing Case No. U-22061, or file a petition to intervene by April 21, 2026.
The scheduled dates in this case have passed — the last was May 5, 2026. The case remains open, and an order can issue at any time. This is the one worth having emailed to you.