UPDATE: CMS leaves $15B capital investment plan intact, may avoid base rate increases in 2014

摘要

On the heels of CMS Energy Corp.'s success with recent cost-cutting initiatives, including a workforce reduction in 2012, accelerated pension funding,nemployee and retiree health care cost sharing, negotiated labor agreements, and productivity improvement and other efficiencies, the company plans tonaccelerate further cost reductions that should allow its utility Consumers Energy Co. to avoid increasing gas and electric base rates through 2014.