LANSING, Mich. (WILX) - Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel is calling to cut DTE’s new half-a billion dollar rate hike.

On Friday, the AG’s office filed testimony in DTE’s rate hike case calling for a reduction of nearly 75%.

DTE filed a request in April seeking to hike rates for residential customers by 11%, or $574 million in total.

The rate hike request came three months after the Michigan Public Service Commission approved a rate hike of $217 million.

Nessel’s testimony calls on the Public Service Commission to reduce the hike from 11% on residential customers to 2.5%

“DTE is once again showing us where its priorities lie – and it isn’t with Michigan ratepayers,” Nessel said in a statement.

“Just months after being granted a $200 million rate hike, DTE is back at the trough d

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