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	COMPANY DATA:	
		COMPANY CONFORMED NAME:			CONSUMERS ENERGY CO
		CENTRAL INDEX KEY:			0000201533
		STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION:	 [4931
]		IRS NUMBER:				380442310
		STATE OF INCORPORATION:			MI
		FISCAL YEAR END:			1231
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			SEC FILE NUMBER:	001-05611
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			BUSINESS ADDRESS:	
				STREET 1:		212 W MICHIGAN AVE
				CITY:			JACKSON
				STATE:			MI
				ZIP:			49201
				BUSINESS PHONE:		5177881030
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					STREET 1:		212 W MICHIGAN AVE
					STREET 2:		M 946
					CITY:			JACKSON
					STATE:			MI
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						FORMER CONFORMED NAME:	CONSUMERS POWER CO
						DATE OF NAME CHANGE:	19920703
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                                    FORM 8-K

                                 CURRENT REPORT


                       SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
                             WASHINGTON, D.C. 20549


     PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(D) OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934


          DATE OF REPORT (DATE OF EARLIEST EVENT REPORTED) JUNE 3, 2000



COMMISSION          REGISTRANT; STATE OF INCORPORATION;        IRS EMPLOYER
FILE NUMBER          ADDRESS; AND TELEPHONE NUMBER            IDENTIFICATION NO
- -----------         ----------------------------------        -----------------


1-9513                 CMS ENERGY CORPORATION                       38-2726431
                       (A MICHIGAN CORPORATION)
                   FAIRLANE PLAZA SOUTH, SUITE 1100
                         330 TOWN CENTER DRIVE
                       DEARBORN, MICHIGAN 48126
                            (313) 436-9261


1-5611                 CONSUMERS ENERGY COMPANY                     38-0442310
                       (A MICHIGAN CORPORATION)
                       212 WEST MICHIGAN AVENUE
                           JACKSON, MICHIGAN
                            (517) 788-1030
================================================================================





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ITEM 5.  OTHER EVENTS.

     On June 3 and June 5, 2000, Consumers Energy Company and its parent CMS
Energy Corporation, respectively, issued press releases on the June 3, 2000
enactment of electric restructuring legislation in Michigan.

     Copies of the Companies' press releases announcing these developments are
filed as exhibits to this report. The Michigan Legislature's website, at
www.MichiganLegislature.org contains further information about the new electric
restructuring legislation. The complete text of the legislation on electric
restructuring and securitization of stranded costs is found in Substitute for
Senate Bill Numbers 937 and 1253.

     The press releases contain "forward-looking statements" that are subject to
risks and uncertainties. The words "anticipates", "believes", "estimates",
"intends", and "plans" and variations of such words and similar expressions are
intended to identify forward-looking statements. They should be read in
conjunction with the "Forward-Looking Statement Cautionary Factors" in CMS
Energy's and Consumers' Form 10-K, Item 1 (incorporated by reference herein)
that discusses important factors that could cause CMS Energy's and Consumers'
results to differ materially from those anticipated in such statements.

ITEM 7.  EXHIBITS

    (99)(a)       Consumers Energy press release dated June 3, 2000 relating to
                  the electric restructuring legislation in Michigan.

    (99)(b)       CMS Energy press release dated June 5, 2000 relating to the
                  electric restructuring legislation in Michigan.


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                                   SIGNATURES



Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the
Registrants have duly caused this report to be signed on their behalf by the
undersigned hereunto duly authorized.


                                          CMS ENERGY CORPORATION



Dated:     June 5, 2000                   By: /s/ Alan M. Wright
                                              ----------------------------------
                                                 Alan M. Wright
                                                 Senior Vice President and
                                                  Chief Financial Officer



                                          CONSUMERS ENERGY COMPANY



Dated:     June 5, 2000                   By: /s/ Alan M. Wright
                                              ----------------------------------
                                                Alan M. Wright
                                                Senior Vice President and
                                                 Chief Financial Officer













<PAGE>   4


                                INDEX TO EXHIBITS


EXHIBIT NO.                   DESCRIPTION
- -----------                   -----------

(99)(a)           -        Consumers Energy press release dated June 3, 2000
                           relating to the electric restructuring legislation in
                           Michigan.

(99)(b)           -        CMS Energy press release dated June 5, 2000
                           relating to the electric restructuring legislation
                           in Michigan.



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                                                                 EXHIBIT (99)(a)


     MACKINAC ISLAND, Mich., June 3, 2000 -- Consumers Energy commended Governor
John Engler, Senator Mat Dunaskiss, Representative Mary Ann Middaugh and members
of the Legislature today for their leadership in the development and passage of
electric restructuring legislation for Michigan.
     "The diligent work of the Governor and both Republicans and Democrats in
the Legislature provides choice for those who want it and protection for those
who don't," said John W. Clark, senior vice president of Consumers Energy. Clark
represented the utility at today's historic bill signing on Mackinac Island.
     The legislation signed into law today will give an immediate five-percent
rate reduction to every residential electric customer served by Consumers
Energy. The cut will be followed by a rate cap that will last at least until
December 31, 2005. Rates for large commercial and industrial electric customers
will be capped at current levels through 2003, and rates for small business
customers will be capped at current levels through 2004.
     "In 1995, Governor Engler asked Consumers Energy, Detroit Edison and
Michigan businesses to work with the Michigan Jobs Commission and the Michigan
Public Service Commission (MPSC) to develop an electric utility restructuring
plan. After five years of hard work, a plan has been put into law that will
result in equitable treatment for our customers, shareholders and employees. It
will serve the state very well," said David W. Joos, president and CEO -
Electric, of Consumers Energy.
     Consumers Energy has already begun a voluntary electric customer choice
program that is giving increasing numbers of customers the opportunity to choose
their power supplier. By 2002, all of the utility's 1.6 million electric
customers will have the ability to choose their supplier. The legislation signed
into law today formalizes the MPSC's authority over customer choice programs. It
also gives legal certainty to developers planning new generating plants in
Michigan.
     "Michigan has long needed the certainty of law to support the development
of new power supplies for our homes and businesses," said Joos.


<PAGE>   2


     Consumers Energy, the principal subsidiary of CMS Energy Corporation, is
Michigan's largest utility providing natural gas and electricity to more than
six million of the state's nine and one-half million residents in all 68 Lower
Peninsula counties.

                                      # # #

June 3, 2000

For more information about Consumers Energy, visit our Website at

www.consumersenergy.com


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                                                                 EXHIBIT (99)(b)


            ENACTMENT OF MICHIGAN ELECTRIC RESTRUCTURING LEGISLATION
                REMOVES UNCERTAINTIES FOR CMS ENERGY CORPORATION

     DEARBORN, Mich., June 5, 2000 - Enactment of electric restructuring
legislation in Michigan over the past weekend removes major financial
uncertainties and is a significant, positive development for Consumers Energy,
the principal subsidiary of CMS Energy Corporation (CMS:NYSE), said CMS Energy
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer William T. McCormick, Jr. Michigan Governor
John Engler signed the package of bills into law on Saturday, June 3, one month
after his call for a restructuring bill.
     "Legislative action on electric restructuring sweeps away substantial
regulatory uncertainty that had been facing Consumers Energy since this debate
began four and one-half years ago, in late 1995", said McCormick. He noted that
the legislation includes several substantial benefits to the company:
     *    Full recovery of stranded costs;
     *    Pending rate proceedings are superseded by a five percent residential
          rate cut, the costs of which are likely to be fully offset by
          securitization benefits;
     *    Rate complaint previously filed by the industrial group ABATE is
          addressed by rate cut and cap provisions in the bills;
     *    A market power test in the legislation will allow the company to build
          additional needed generating capacity in Michigan and does not require
          divestiture of power generation assets;
     *    The legislation provides for customer choice along with increased
          regulatory certainty for the future of the utility business in the
          state.



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     CMS Energy Corporation has annual sales of more than $6 billion and assets
of about $15 billion throughout the U.S. and around the world with businesses in
electric and natural gas utility operations; independent power production;
natural gas pipelines, gathering, processing and storage; oil and gas
exploration and production; and energy marketing, services and trading.

                                     # # #

For more information on CMS Energy, please visit our website at: www.cmsenergy.
com/

Media Contacts: Kelly M. Farr, 313/436-9253 or John P. Barnett, 713/989-7556
Investments Analyst Contact: CMS Energy Investor Relations, 517/788-2590


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