The state that’s home to Motor City has taken its first step into utility-backed electric vehicle charging.
On Wednesday, the Michigan Public Service Commission approved Consumers Energy’s PowerMiDrive initiative, a $10 million, three-year plan to incentivize the deployment of EV chargers at homes, apartments, schools, workplaces and other public charging sites. It also includes fast chargers along highways.
The program, part of a settlement agreement on Consumers’ newly announced $58 million rate increase, is relatively paltry, compared to the $1 billion and counting that California utilities are investing in EV charging programs, or New York’s $250 million EV charging initiative launched last year.
