U-21291-0338

Overview

Frontline Organizations Soulardarity, Urban Core Collective, and We Want Green, Too replied to parties’ exceptions in DTE Gas’s U-21291 rate case, urging the Commission to adopt the ALJ’s transition-planning recommendations and to order affordability relief despite the pending EAAC process.

Key Points

• •FLO supported incorporating energy transition planning into DTE Gas’s Gas Delivery Plan.
• •FLO argued DTE’s position that planning should wait for EAAC affordability recommendations was illogical and disingenuous.
• •FLO highlighted that electrification will render parts of DTE’s gas distribution system obsolete, creating stranded cost and affordability risks.
• •FLO criticized DTE’s requested rate increase as exacerbating an existing affordability crisis for low-income customers.
• •FLO asked the Commission to order concrete affordability program relief in this rate case.