Rep. Joe Bellino’s protecting big utilities companies is shocking and unacceptable!
Michigan has the highest electricity rates in the Midwest and the worst service reliability.* Just ask tens of thousands of customers how many times they lost power this summer.
Rep. Bellino is chairman of the House Energy Committee. His job is to hold utilities accountable – not do their bidding. Yet Chairman Bellino refuses to hold votes on legislation in his committee that will help control rates and make the grid more resilient.
Rep. Bellino is even holding up bills that will allow customers to put solar panels on their own homes!** Big utilities should not control what customers can do on their property.
Tell Rep. Bellino to stop protecting the big utilities and start moving legislation to serve ratepayers!
Call his office at 517-373-1530 or email him at: JosephBellino@house.mi.gov
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*The Citizens Utility Board of Michigan reports that Michigan has the highest electricity rates compared to Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Wisconsin and Minnesota. Michigan also has more minutes of power outage per customer than those states, and 4th worst outage rate in the entire nation. https://www.cubofmichigan.org/issues
**House Bill 4236 would lift restrictive caps on the number of residential customers who can install solar panels and supply their excess electricity to their neighbors on the grid for a fair price. http://legislature.mi.gov/doc.aspx?2021-HB-4236