Consumers Energy Crews Restore Power to Three-Fourths of Affected Customers
A downed tree remains across Fourth Street in Jackson on Thursday afternoon. JTV photo. (August 4, 2022 9:57 PM) Consumers Energy crews will continue working through the night after restoring power to three-fourths of Michigan homes and businesses affected by a major summer storm this week. Over 230 crews have now restored power to about 66,000 customers. “We are grateful for the patience of our customers who count on us, and we want to reward that patience by working around the clock until we restore power to everyone,” said Guy Packard, Consumers Energy’s officer in charge for today’s power restoration work. “Our crews are committed to the final stretch of the work from this storm and plan to finish the job Friday.” More than 88,000 Consumers Energy customers have been affected by this week’s weather, featuring wind gusts that reached 60 mph. As of 9:30 p.m., about 22,000 were without power. In Jackson County, 5,533 customers are without power. Customers can report an outage and check the status of outage by visiting www.ConsumersEnergy.com/OutageCenter. They can also sign up to get outage alerts and restoration times sent to a phone, email or text message, Text ‘REG' to 232273 or visit www.ConsumersEnergy.com/alerts. Packard urged…
