CMS Energy (CMS) Financial History

At December 31, 2025, unions represent 45 percent of Consumers’ employees and 22 percent of NorthStar Clean Energy’s employees.

A work interruption or other union actions could adversely affect CMS Energy and Consumers.

Adverse economic conditions or financial difficulties experienced by counterparties with whom CMS Energy and Consumers do business could impair the ability of these counterparties to pay for CMS Energy’s and Consumers…

Unforeseen outages or maintenance of the electric and gas delivery systems, power plants, gas infrastructure including storage facilities and compression stations, wind energy or solar equipment, energy storage assets…

CMS Energy and Consumers are exposed to changes in market prices for commodities including, but not limited to, natural gas, coal, electric capacity, electric energy, emission allowances, gasoline, diesel fuel, and RECs.

In the regular course of business, CMS Energy and Consumers handle a range of sensitive confidential security and customer information.

CMS Energy’s and Consumers’ utility operations are seasonal.

Consumers expects to incur additional substantial costs related to the remediation of its former MGP sites and other response activity costs at a number of other former sites, including, but not limited to, sites of r…

Consumers expects to collect fully from its customers, through the ratemaking process, expenditures incurred to comply with environmental regulations, but cannot guarantee this outcome.

CMS Energy and Consumers are required to make judgments regarding the potential tax effects of various financial transactions and results of operations in order to estimate their obligations to taxing authorities.

Consumers has also announced its electric Reliability Roadmap.

Consumers has announced a long-term strategy for delivering clean, reliable, resilient, and affordable energy, and other subsidiaries of CMS Energy have plans to develop and operate clean energy assets.

The various risks associated with the MPSC and FERC regulation of CMS Energy’s and Consumers’ businesses, which include the risk of adverse decisions in any number of rate or regulatory proceedings before either agenc…

Michigan law allows customers to use distributed energy resources for their electric energy needs.

utilities.

Unforeseen outages or maintenance of the electric and gas delivery systems, power plants, gas infrastructure including storage facilities and compression stations, wind energy or solar equipment, energy storage assets…

CMS Energy’s and Consumers’ risk or that they will not result in net liabilities to CMS Energy or Consumers as a result of future volatility.

In the regular course of business, CMS Energy and Consumers handle a range of sensitive confidential security and customer information.

Alternatively, this rapid expansion of data centers and resulting increase in demand for electric power in MISO and in Consumers’ service territory may not develop as planned.

NREPA, RCRA, CERCLA and related state and federal regulations.

of the associated capital investments.

such as interconnection delays for new electric generation or storage projects, could also have a material adverse effect on CMS Energy and Consumers.

as contractual obligations by third parties to purchase utility services, perform work, supply equipment, provide services, and meet related specifications or requirements), could have a material adverse effect on CMS…

Alternatively, this rapid expansion of data centers and resulting increase in demand for electric power in MISO and in Consumers’ service territory may not develop as anticipated.

resulting use of natural gas as heating fuel.

proposed in Consumers’ plan.

operation of the J.H.

Consumers also faces regulatory uncertainty resulting from the U.S.

Michigan law allows Consumers’ electric and natural gas utility businesses to serve customers pursuant to franchises granted by municipalities.

FERC issued an advance notice of proposed rulemaking in response to the Secretary of the DOE’s direction to FERC to consider the advance notice of proposed rulemaking as a means to standardize and expedite interconnec…