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Author Archives: Harvey Bell

Harvey Bell is a member of the Great Lakes Renewable Energy Association, the University of Michigan faculty, and an engineer by trade.
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VOICES: Michigan ratepayers deserve reliability standard that rises to today’s challenges

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The Michigan Public Service Commission’s recent decision to grant performance incentives to DTE Electric was pitched as a move toward better reliability.  For Detroiters and Michiganders who’ve weathered years of lengthy outages, spoiled groceries, missed school days, and lost wages, the decision doesn’t go far enough. Instead of holding DTE to the standards of the […]