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Gov. Rick Snyder announced Thursday commitments from DTE Energy and Consumers Energy, the state’s two major utility companies, to increase their annual spend with Michigan owned businesses to $1 billion a year.
“In May of 2013 that number was going to a billion,” Snyder told the SBAM Annual Conference. “They’re signing up for a new goal. Over the next five years each of the companies will spend $1 billion a year.”
Snyder called the total $10 billion commitment “a huge opportunity.”
“This is the kind of partnership we want to continue,” he added of the Pure Michigan Business Connect commitments.
The total $10 billion, five-year commitment does not include the cost of constructing any new power generation plants — something John Russell, the president of Consumers Energy, said could allow the companies to move beyond the $1-billion-a-year goal.