Item 8.01 Other Events.

On November 24, 2020, CMS Energy Corporation (CMS Energy") and Consumers Energy Company ("Consumers Energy") announced the following management changes.

As of December 1, 2020, LeeRoy Wells Jr. will assume the position of senior vice president of operations. Wells, age 42, joined Consumers Energy in 2006 as part of the electric generation operations team responsible for electric infrastructure reliability. He was elected vice president of gas operations in 2019. Prior to this role, Wells served in a variety of leadership positions across the business as vice president of operations support overseeing the supply chain, corporate safety and health, fleet, facilities, and real estate departments helping to ensure reliability and safety within our infrastructure. He has also worked as an executive director in electric operations, leading a workforce of over 480 employees in the area of electric low voltage distribution, construction and service restoration.

As of December 1, 2020, Tonya Berry will assume the position of vice president of gas operations. Berry, age 48, has served as vice president of operations performance since November 2018. In her role, she leads the implementation of Lean methodologies to further enhance our Quality Assurance function and improve work management processes within the gas and electric groups. Berry joined Consumers Energy in 2015 as a member of the quality team. After briefly serving as manager of strategic initiatives with Massachusetts-based Energy Federation, Inc., she returned in 2017 to successfully lead Consumers Energy's Lean Office and the company's adoption of the CE Way. Berry has 20 years of experience deploying Lean methodologies across many industries and is a Six Sigma Black Belt from Lawrence Tech University. Prior to joining Consumers Energy, Berry also worked for Chrysler LLC in lean operations and industrial engineering.

Item 9.01. Financial Statements and Exhibits.





(d) Exhibits.


                                       Exhibit Index
  99.1       CMS Energy News Release dated November 24, 2020
104        Cover Page Interactive Data File (the cover page XBRL tags are
           embedded in the Inline XBRL document).

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