(MI) Detroit Free Press – Consumers Energy customers will begin paying more on their bills to help pay for the utility’s efforts to reach the state-mandated requirement of generating 10% of its power from renewable energy sources.

Electricity customers will begin seeing a $2.50 monthly surcharge on their September bills to support Consumers’ Renewable Energy Plan, which calls for 900 megawatts of electricity coming from wind power by 2015. The utility plans to build between 250 and 500 wind turbines in Mason and Tuscola counties to generate 450 megawatts of power. The rest is to be purchased from contractors. More