Wednesday, January 8, 2025

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 2024 Calendar Year Total Retail Sales2,055,248 MWh
UMERC 202\43 Weather Adjusted Retail Sales (WARS)*

2,049,246 MWh% of WARS
UMERC 2025 Customer Choice Cap204,925 MWh10.00%
Active Customer Choice Participation247,601 MWh 12.08%
Pending Customer Choice Participation (Not yet served by an AES)0 MWh  0.00%
2025 Available Energy Allotments0 MWh  0.00%
Enrollments in Queue2
Total Load in Queue72,781 MWh3.55%


*Normalization Methodology: With 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.