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DEARBORN, Mich., June 30, 1999 -- CMS Energy Corporation (NYSE:CMS)
announced today that the Michigan Supreme Court decided yesterday in favor
of its Consumers Energy utility unit in a 1995 case involving the
authority of the Michigan Public Service Commission (MPSC) to mandate
electric retail wheeling in Michigan.

         In its decision, the Court ruled that the MPSC does not have the
authority to mandate electric retail wheeling, but does have the authority
to set rates for transmitting power from a competitor to its customers if
the utility chooses to offer such service.  In speaking for the Court,
Justice Maura Corrigan wrote, "The MPSC can encourage a specific
management decision through the exercise of its ratemaking power, but it
may not directly order the utility to make that decision."

         Since Consumers Energy has chosen to accept the MPSC's 1998 and
1999 Orders on Restructuring, the Company intends to implement the retail
competition beginning in September of this year and phase it in over the
next three years.

         The MPSC's Orders on restructuring also permit Consumers Energy
full recovery of stranded cost through a transmission surcharge.

         CMS Energy Corporation has annual sales of about $6 billion and
assets of about $14 billion throughout the U.S. and in 22 countries around
the world with businesses in electric and natural gas utility operations;
independent power production; natural gas pipelines and storage; oil and
gas exploration and production; and energy marketing, services and
trading.  CMS Energy Corporation's principal subsidiary is Consumers
Energy, Michigan's largest utility and America's fourth largest
combination gas and electric utility.
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