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ACCESSION NUMBER:		0000811156-14-000003
CONFORMED SUBMISSION TYPE:	8-K
PUBLIC DOCUMENT COUNT:		2
CONFORMED PERIOD OF REPORT:	20141124
ITEM INFORMATION:		Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement
ITEM INFORMATION:		Financial Statements and Exhibits
FILED AS OF DATE:		20141124
DATE AS OF CHANGE:		20141124

FILER:

	COMPANY DATA:	
		COMPANY CONFORMED NAME:			CMS ENERGY CORP
		CENTRAL INDEX KEY:			0000811156
		STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION:	ELECTRIC & OTHER SERVICES COMBINED [4931]
		IRS NUMBER:				382726431
		STATE OF INCORPORATION:			MI
		FISCAL YEAR END:			1231

	FILING VALUES:
		FORM TYPE:		8-K
		SEC ACT:		1934 Act
		SEC FILE NUMBER:	001-09513
		FILM NUMBER:		141246944

	BUSINESS ADDRESS:	
		STREET 1:		ONE ENERGY PLAZA
		CITY:			JACKSON
		STATE:			MI
		ZIP:			49201
		BUSINESS PHONE:		5177881612

	MAIL ADDRESS:	
		STREET 1:		ONE ENERGY PLAZA
		CITY:			JACKSON
		STATE:			MI
		ZIP:			49201

FILER:

	COMPANY DATA:	
		COMPANY CONFORMED NAME:			CONSUMERS ENERGY CO
		CENTRAL INDEX KEY:			0000201533
		STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION:	ELECTRIC & OTHER SERVICES COMBINED [4931]
		IRS NUMBER:				380442310
		STATE OF INCORPORATION:			MI
		FISCAL YEAR END:			1231

	FILING VALUES:
		FORM TYPE:		8-K
		SEC ACT:		1934 Act
		SEC FILE NUMBER:	001-05611
		FILM NUMBER:		141246945

	BUSINESS ADDRESS:	
		STREET 1:		ONE ENERGY PLAZA
		CITY:			JACKSON
		STATE:			MI
		ZIP:			49201
		BUSINESS PHONE:		5177881612

	MAIL ADDRESS:	
		STREET 1:		ONE ENERGY PLAZA
		CITY:			JACKSON
		STATE:			MI
		ZIP:			49201

	FORMER COMPANY:	
		FORMER CONFORMED NAME:	CONSUMERS POWER CO
		DATE OF NAME CHANGE:	19920703
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			AR Amend 2014
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						<font style="display: inline;font-weight:bold;font-size:12pt;">UNITED STATES</font></p>
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						<font style="display: inline;font-weight:bold;font-size:12pt;">SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION</font></p>
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						<font style="display: inline;font-weight:bold;font-size:12pt;">(A Michigan Corporation)</font></p>
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						<font style="display: inline;font-weight:bold;font-size:12pt;">One Energy Plaza</font></p>
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						<font style="display: inline;font-weight:bold;font-size:12pt;">Jackson, Michigan 49201</font></p>
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			<font style="display: inline;font-weight:bold;font-size:12pt;">Item&nbsp;1.01. Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement. </font>
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			<font style="display: inline;font-size:12pt;">On November&nbsp;2</font><font style="display: inline;font-size:12pt;">0</font><font style="display: inline;font-size:12pt;">, 201</font><font style="display: inline;font-size:12pt;">4</font><font style="display: inline;font-size:12pt;">, Consumers Energy Company (&#x201C;Consumers&#x201D;), a principal subsidiary of CMS Energy Corporation (&#x201C;CMS Energy&#x201D;), amended its Amended and Restated Receivables Purchase Agreement dated as of November&nbsp;23, 2010 (the &#x201C;Purchase Agreement&#x201D;). The parties to the Purchase Agreement are listed in the Purchase Agreement, which was previously filed as Exhibit 10.34 to the Form 10-K filed February&nbsp;24, 2011 and is incorporated herein by reference. The effect of this amendment, among other things, is to extend the term of the Consumers&#x2019; receivables financing facility until November&nbsp;2</font><font style="display: inline;font-size:12pt;">0</font><font style="display: inline;font-size:12pt;">, 201</font><font style="display: inline;font-size:12pt;">6</font><font style="display: inline;font-size:12pt;">. &nbsp;</font>
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			<font style="display: inline;font-size:12pt;">The Bank of Nova Scotia has provided banking and underwriting services to Consumers in the ordinary course of business. </font>
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			<font style="display: inline;font-size:12pt;">The foregoing description of the amendment does not purport to be complete and is qualified in its entirety by the provisions of the amendment, which is attached hereto as Exhibit&nbsp;10.1 and incorporated herein by reference. </font>
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			<font style="display: inline;font-weight:bold;font-size:12pt;">Item&nbsp;9.01. Financial Statements and Exhibits. </font>
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			<font style="display: inline;font-weight:bold;font-size:12pt;">(d) Exhibits. </font>
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						<font style="display: inline;font-size:12pt;">Amendment No.&nbsp;</font><font style="display: inline;font-size:12pt;">7</font><font style="display: inline;font-size:12pt;"> to Amended and Restated Receivables Purchase Agreement dated as of November&nbsp;2</font><font style="display: inline;font-size:12pt;">0</font><font style="display: inline;font-size:12pt;">, 201</font><font style="display: inline;font-size:12pt;">4</font></p>
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			<font style="display: inline;font-size:12pt;">Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the </font><font style="display: inline;font-size:12pt;">R</font><font style="display: inline;font-size:12pt;">egistrant</font><font style="display: inline;font-size:12pt;">s</font><font style="display: inline;font-size:12pt;"> ha</font><font style="display: inline;font-size:12pt;">ve </font><font style="display: inline;font-size:12pt;">duly caused this report to be signed on </font><font style="display: inline;font-size:12pt;">their</font><font style="display: inline;font-size:12pt;"> behalf by the undersigned hereunto duly authorized.</font>
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						<font style="display: inline;font-weight:bold;font-size:12pt;">CMS ENERGY CORPORATION</font></p>
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						<font style="display: inline;font-size:12pt;">Dated: November 24, 2014</font></p>
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						<font style="display: inline;font-size:12pt;">/s/ Thomas J. Webb</font></p>
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						<font style="display: inline;font-size:12pt;">Thomas J. Webb</font></p>
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						<font style="display: inline;font-weight:bold;font-size:12pt;">CONSUMERS ENERGY COMPANY</font></p>
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						<font style="display: inline;font-size:12pt;">Dated: November 24, 2014</font></p>
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						<font style="display: inline;font-size:12pt;">/s/ Thomas J. Webb</font></p>
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						<font style="display: inline;font-size:12pt;">Thomas J. Webb</font></p>
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			<font style="display: inline;">AMENDED AND RESTATED RECEIVABLES PURCHASE AGREEMENT</font>
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			<font style="display: inline;">THIS AMENDMENT NO. 7 (this &#x201C;</font><font style="display: inline;text-decoration:underline;">Amendment</font><font style="display: inline;">&#x201D;) is entered into as of November 20, 2014 by and among Consumers Receivables Funding II, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company (the &#x201C;</font><font style="display: inline;text-decoration:underline;">Seller</font><font style="display: inline;">&#x201D;), Consumers Energy Company, a Michigan corporation (&#x201C;</font><font style="display: inline;text-decoration:underline;">Consumers</font><font style="display: inline;">&#x201D;), as initial servicer (the &#x201C;</font><font style="display: inline;text-decoration:underline;">Servicer</font><font style="display: inline;">&#x201D;), the entities party hereto from time to time as Conduits (together with any of their respective successors and assigns hereunder, the &#x201C;</font><font style="display: inline;text-decoration:underline;">Conduits</font><font style="display: inline;">&#x201D;), the entities party hereto from time to time as Financial Institutions (together with any of their respective successors and assigns hereunder, the &#x201C;</font><font style="display: inline;text-decoration:underline;">Financial Institutions</font><font style="display: inline;">&#x201D;), the entities party hereto from time to time as Managing Agents (together with any of their respective successors and assigns hereunder, the &#x201C;</font><font style="display: inline;text-decoration:underline;">Managing Agents</font><font style="display: inline;">&#x201D;) and The Bank of Nova Scotia, (&#x201C;</font><font style="display: inline;text-decoration:underline;">BNS</font><font style="display: inline;">&#x201D;), as assignee of JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., as administrative agent for the Purchasers (together with its successors and assigns hereunder, the &#x201C;</font><font style="display: inline;text-decoration:underline;">Administrative Agent</font><font style="display: inline;">&#x201D;).</font>
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			<font style="display: inline;">The Seller, the Servicer, the Conduits, the Financial Institutions, the Managing Agents and the Administrative Agent are parties to that certain Amended and Restated Receivables Purchase Agreement dated as of November 23, 2010 (as amended prior to the date hereof and as further amended, restated, supplemented or otherwise modified from time to time prior to the date hereof, the &#x201C;</font><font style="display: inline;text-decoration:underline;">RPA</font><font style="display: inline;">&#x201D;).&nbsp;&nbsp;Terms used herein and not otherwise defined herein shall have the meanings assigned in the RPA.</font>
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			<font style="display: inline;">The parties to the RPA enter into this Amendment to provide for certain modifications to the terms and provisions of the RPA as more particularly set forth herein below.</font>
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			<font style="display: inline;">NOW THEREFORE, in consideration of the premises herein contained, and for other good and valuable consideration, the receipt of which is hereby acknowledged, the parties hereto hereby agree as follows:</font>
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			<font style="display: inline;">1.1.&nbsp; </font><font style="display: inline;text-decoration:underline;">Exhibit I</font><font style="display: inline;"> to the RPA is hereby amended to delete the definitions therein of &#x201C;Excess SPP Arrearage Amount&#x201D;, &#x201C;Liquidity Termination Date&#x201D; and &#x201C;SPP Arrearage Amount&#x201D; and replace them with the following:</font>
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			<font style="display: inline;">3.1.</font><font style="display: inline;;font-size: 12pt;font-family:Times New Roman;text-indent:0pt;margin-left:0pt;padding:0pt 36pt 0pt 0pt;"></font><font style="display: inline;">Upon the effectiveness of this Amendment, each of the Seller and the Servicer hereby reaffirms all covenants, representations and warranties made by it in the RPA, as amended, and agrees that all such covenants, representations and warranties shall be deemed to have been re-made as of the effective date of this Amendment.</font>
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		<p style="margin:0pt 0pt 12pt;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;text-indent:72pt;font-family:Times New Roman;;font-size: 12pt"><font style="display: inline;">IN WITNESS WHEREOF</font><font style="display: inline;">, the parties hereto have caused this Amendment to be duly executed and delivered as of the date first written above.</font>
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			<font style="display: inline;">CONSUMERS RECEIVABLES FUNDING II, LLC, as Seller</font>
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			<font style="text-indent:0pt;margin-left:0pt; padding-right:175pt;"><font style="display: inline;">By:</font><font style="display: inline;">&nbsp;</font><font style="display: inline;text-decoration:underline;">/s/ DV Rao</font></font><font style="text-indent:0pt;margin-left:0pt; padding-right:4pt;text-align:left"><font style="display: inline;text-decoration:underline;"></font><br /><font style="display: inline;"> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Name:&nbsp;&nbsp;Venkat Dhenuvakonda Rao</font><br /><font style="display: inline;"> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Title:&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;President, Chief Executive Officer,</font></font>
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			<font style="display: inline;;font-size: 12pt;font-family:Times New Roman;text-indent:0pt;margin-left:0pt;padding:0pt 36pt 0pt 0pt;"></font><font style="display: inline;"></font><font style="display: inline;;font-size: 12pt;font-family:Times New Roman;text-indent:0pt;margin-left:0pt;padding:0pt 36pt 0pt 0pt;"></font><font style="display: inline;"></font><font style="display: inline;;font-size: 12pt;font-family:Times New Roman;text-indent:0pt;margin-left:0pt;padding:0pt 36pt 0pt 0pt;"></font><font style="display: inline;"></font><font style="display: inline;;font-size: 12pt;font-family:Times New Roman;text-indent:0pt;margin-left:0pt;padding:0pt 36pt 0pt 0pt;"></font><font style="display: inline;"></font><font style="display: inline;;font-size: 12pt;font-family:Times New Roman;text-indent:0pt;margin-left:0pt;padding:0pt 36pt 0pt 0pt;"></font><font style="display: inline;"></font><font style="display: inline;;font-size: 12pt;font-family:Times New Roman;text-indent:0pt;margin-left:0pt;padding:0pt 36pt 0pt 0pt;"></font><font style="display: inline;"></font><font style="display: inline;;font-size: 12pt;font-family:Times New Roman;text-indent:0pt;margin-left:0pt;padding:0pt 36pt 0pt 0pt;"></font><font style="display: inline;"> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer</font>
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			<font style="display: inline;">CONSUMERS ENERGY COMPANY, as Servicer</font>
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			<font style="text-indent:0pt;margin-left:0pt; padding-right:175pt;"><font style="display: inline;">By:</font><font style="display: inline;text-decoration:underline;"> /s/ DV Rao</font></font><font style="text-indent:0pt;margin-left:0pt; padding-right:4pt;text-align:left"><font style="display: inline;text-decoration:underline;"></font><br /><font style="display: inline;"> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Name:&nbsp;&nbsp;Venkat Dhenuvakonda Rao</font><br /><font style="display: inline;"> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Title:&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Vice President and Treasurer</font></font>
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			<font style="display: inline;font-style:italic;font-size:10pt;">Signature Page to </font>

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			<font style="display: inline;font-style:italic;font-size:10pt;">Amendment No. 7 to Amended and Restated Receivables Purchase Agreement</font>

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		<p style="margin:0pt 0pt 24pt 216pt;font-family:Times New Roman;;font-size: 12pt"><font style="display: inline;">BNS PURCHASER GROUP:</font>
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			<font style="display: inline;">LIBERTY STREET FU</font><font style="display: inline;">NDING LLC, </font>
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			<font style="display: inline;">as a Conduit</font>
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			<font style="display: inline;">By:</font><font style="display: inline;text-decoration:underline;">&nbsp;</font><font style="display: inline;text-decoration:underline;">/s/ </font><font style="display: inline;text-decoration:underline;">Frank B. Bilotta</font><font style="display: inline;">____________</font>
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			<font style="display: inline;"> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Name:&nbsp; </font><font style="display: inline;">Frank B. Bilotta</font>
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			<font style="display: inline;"> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Title:&nbsp; </font><font style="display: inline;">Vice President</font>
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			<font style="display: inline;">THE BANK OF NOVA SCOTIA, as a Financial Institution, as a Managing Agent and as Administrative Agent</font>
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			<font style="text-indent:0pt;margin-left:0pt; padding-right:175pt;"><font style="display: inline;">By:</font><font style="display: inline;">&nbsp;</font><font style="display: inline;text-decoration:underline;">/s</font><font style="display: inline;text-decoration:underline;">/</font><font style="display: inline;text-decoration:underline;"> Thane Rattew</font></font><font style="text-indent:0pt;margin-left:0pt; padding-right:4pt;text-align:left"><font style="display: inline;text-decoration:underline;"></font><br /><font style="display: inline;"> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Name:&nbsp; </font><font style="display: inline;">Thane Rattew</font><br /><font style="display: inline;"> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Title:</font><font style="display: inline;"> Managing Director</font></font>
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			<font style="display: inline;font-style:italic;font-size:10pt;">Amendment No. 7 to Amended and Restated Receivables Purchase Agreement</font>

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