Monday, January 12, 2026

Michigan Customer Choice Cap Tracking

Customer Choice participation is limited to 10 percent of Upper Michigan Energy Resources Corporation's (UMERC) weather-adjusted sales for the previous calendar year. Current program status:


UMERC 2025 Calendar Year Total Retail Sales1,981,019 MWh
UMERC 2025 Weather Adjusted Retail Sales (WARS)*

1,982,128 MWh% of WARS
UMERC 2026 Customer Choice Cap198,213 MWh10.00%
Active Customer Choice Participation237,502 MWh 11.98%
Pending Customer Choice Participation (Not yet served by an AES)0 MWh  0.00%
2026 Available Energy Allotments0 MWh  0.00%
Enrollments in Queue2
Total Load in Queue77,309 MWh3.90%


*Normalization MethodologyWith the creation of UMERC, Residential and Small C&I sales in both the WPSC Rate Zone and the WEPCo Rate Zone are now weather normalized using Iron Mountain weather.  Both zones use the same monthly weather normalization coefficients for heating and cooling degree days (base = 65).  Twenty year rolling average weather is used for “normal” weather.