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<div style="margin-top: 12pt; font-size: 10pt;" align="left"><b>5: FINANCINGS</b> </div>
<div style="margin-top: 6pt; font-size: 10pt;" align="left">The following is a summary of significant long-term debt transactions during the nine months ended September 30, 2010: </div>
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<tr style="font-size: 8pt;" valign="bottom"><td> </td>
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<td colspan="2" nowrap="nowrap" align="center">Principal</td>
<td> </td>
<td> </td>
<td colspan="2" nowrap="nowrap" align="center">Interest</td>
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<td colspan="2" nowrap="nowrap" align="center"> </td>
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<td colspan="2" nowrap="nowrap" align="center"> </td>
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<tr style="font-size: 8pt;" valign="bottom"><td> </td>
<td> </td>
<td colspan="2" nowrap="nowrap" align="center">(in Millions)</td>
<td> </td>
<td> </td>
<td colspan="2" nowrap="nowrap" align="center">Rate</td>
<td> </td>
<td> </td>
<td colspan="2" nowrap="nowrap" align="center">Issue/Retirement Date</td>
<td> </td>
<td> </td>
<td colspan="2" nowrap="nowrap" align="center">Maturity Date</td>
<td> </td></tr>
<tr style="font-size: 1px;"><td style="border-top: #000000 1px solid;" colspan="17" align="left"> </td></tr>
<tr style="background: #cceeff;" valign="bottom"><td>
<div style="text-indent: -15px; margin-left: 15px;"><font style="font-variant: small-caps;" class="_mt"><b>Debt Issuances:</b></font></div></td>
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<div style="text-indent: -15px; margin-left: 15px;"><font style="font-variant: small-caps;" class="_mt"><b>CMS Energy</b></font></div></td>
<td> </td>
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<tr style="background: #cceeff;" valign="bottom"><td>
<div style="text-indent: -15px; margin-left: 30px;">Senior notes</div></td>
<td> </td>
<td align="left">$</td>
<td align="right">300</td>
<td> </td>
<td> </td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" align="left"> </td>
<td align="right">6.25</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap">%</td>
<td> </td>
<td colspan="3" nowrap="nowrap" align="center">January 2010</td>
<td> </td>
<td colspan="3" nowrap="nowrap" align="center">February 2020</td></tr>
<tr valign="bottom"><td>
<div style="text-indent: -15px; margin-left: 30px;">Senior notes (a)</div></td>
<td> </td>
<td> </td>
<td align="right">250</td>
<td> </td>
<td> </td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" align="left"> </td>
<td align="right">4.25</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap">%</td>
<td> </td>
<td colspan="3" nowrap="nowrap" align="center">September 2010</td>
<td> </td>
<td colspan="3" nowrap="nowrap" align="center">September 2015</td></tr>
<tr style="background: #cceeff;" valign="bottom"><td>
<div style="text-indent: -15px; margin-left: 15px;"><font style="font-variant: small-caps;" class="_mt"><b>Consumers</b></font></div></td>
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<div style="text-indent: -15px; margin-left: 30px;">FMBs</div></td>
<td> </td>
<td> </td>
<td align="right">250</td>
<td> </td>
<td> </td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" align="left"> </td>
<td align="right">5.30</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap">%</td>
<td> </td>
<td colspan="3" nowrap="nowrap" align="center">September 2010</td>
<td> </td>
<td colspan="3" nowrap="nowrap" align="center">September 2022</td></tr>
<tr style="background: #cceeff;" valign="bottom"><td>
<div style="text-indent: -15px; margin-left: 30px;">FMBs</div></td>
<td> </td>
<td> </td>
<td align="right">50</td>
<td> </td>
<td> </td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" align="left"> </td>
<td align="right">6.17</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap">%</td>
<td> </td>
<td colspan="3" nowrap="nowrap" align="center">September 2010</td>
<td> </td>
<td colspan="3" nowrap="nowrap" align="center">September 2040</td></tr>
<tr style="font-size: 1px;"><td style="border-top: #000000 3px double;" colspan="17" align="left"> </td></tr>
<tr valign="bottom"><td>
<div style="text-indent: -15px; margin-left: 15px;"><font style="font-variant: small-caps;" class="_mt"><b>Debt Retirements:</b></font></div></td>
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<div style="text-indent: -15px; margin-left: 15px;"><font style="font-variant: small-caps;" class="_mt"><b>CMS Energy</b></font></div></td>
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<div style="text-indent: -15px; margin-left: 30px;">Senior notes</div></td>
<td> </td>
<td align="left">$</td>
<td align="right">67</td>
<td> </td>
<td> </td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" align="left"> </td>
<td align="right">7.75</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap">%</td>
<td> </td>
<td colspan="3" nowrap="nowrap" align="center">August 2010</td>
<td> </td>
<td colspan="3" nowrap="nowrap" align="center">August 2010</td></tr>
<tr style="background: #cceeff;" valign="bottom"><td>
<div style="text-indent: -15px; margin-left: 15px;"><font style="font-variant: small-caps;" class="_mt"><b>Consumers</b></font></div></td>
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<div style="text-indent: -15px; margin-left: 30px;">FMBs</div></td>
<td> </td>
<td> </td>
<td align="right">250</td>
<td> </td>
<td> </td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" align="left"> </td>
<td align="right">4.00</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap">%</td>
<td> </td>
<td colspan="3" nowrap="nowrap" align="center">May 2010</td>
<td> </td>
<td colspan="3" nowrap="nowrap" align="center">May 2010</td></tr>
<tr style="background: #cceeff;" valign="bottom"><td>
<div style="text-indent: -15px; margin-left: 30px;">Tax-exempt pollution control revenue bonds</div></td>
<td> </td>
<td> </td>
<td align="right">58</td>
<td> </td>
<td> </td>
<td colspan="3" align="center">Various</td>
<td> </td>
<td colspan="3" align="center">June 2010</td>
<td> </td>
<td colspan="3" align="center">June 2010</td></tr>
<tr style="font-size: 1px;"><td style="border-top: #000000 3px double;" colspan="17" align="left"> </td></tr></table></div>
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<td width="1%"> </td>
<td width="96%"> </td></tr>
<tr valign="top"><td nowrap="nowrap" align="left">(a)</td>
<td> </td>
<td>In conjunction with the September 2010 issuance of the 4.25 percent senior notes, CMS Energy exercised its mandatory conversion rights for all of its outstanding 4.50 percent cumulative convertible preferred stock. Also in September 2010, holders tendered 633,971 shares of the 4.50 percent cumulative convertible preferred stock for voluntary conversion. In October 2010, CMS Energy used the majority of the net proceeds from the issuance of the senior notes to pay the $226 million cash portion of the conversion value and issued 13,110,733 shares of its common stock to pay the common stock portion of the conversion value.</td></tr></table></div>
<div style="margin-top: 6pt; font-size: 10pt;" align="left">In September 2010, Consumers executed a bond purchase agreement and issued, in an October 2010 private placement, $50 million of 2.60 percent FMBs due 2015, $100 million of 3.21 percent FMBs due 2017, $100 million of 3.77 percent FMBs due 2020, and $50 million of 4.97 percent FMBs due 2040. In conjunction with this issuance, in September 2010 Consumers called $137 million of 5.65 percent FMBs due 2035 for redemption, which occurred in October 2010. </div></div>
<div style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">
<div style="margin-top: 6pt; font-size: 10pt;" align="left"><b>Revolving Credit Facilities: </b>The following secured revolving credit facilities with banks were available at September 30, 2010: </div>
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<tr style="font-size: 8pt;" valign="bottom"><td style="border-bottom: #000000 1px solid;" colspan="21" nowrap="nowrap" align="right">In Millions </td></tr>
<tr style="font-size: 8pt;" valign="bottom"><td> </td>
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<td colspan="2" nowrap="nowrap" align="center">Letters of</td>
<td> </td>
<td> </td>
<td colspan="2" nowrap="nowrap" align="center"> </td>
<td> </td></tr>
<tr style="font-size: 8pt;" valign="bottom"><td> </td>
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<td> </td>
<td colspan="2" nowrap="nowrap" align="center">Amount of</td>
<td> </td>
<td> </td>
<td colspan="2" nowrap="nowrap" align="center">Amount</td>
<td> </td>
<td> </td>
<td colspan="2" nowrap="nowrap" align="center">Credit</td>
<td> </td>
<td> </td>
<td colspan="2" nowrap="nowrap" align="center">Amount</td>
<td> </td></tr>
<tr style="font-size: 8pt;" valign="bottom"><td nowrap="nowrap" align="left">Company</td>
<td> </td>
<td colspan="2" nowrap="nowrap" align="center">Expiration Date</td>
<td> </td>
<td> </td>
<td colspan="2" nowrap="nowrap" align="center">Facility</td>
<td> </td>
<td> </td>
<td colspan="2" nowrap="nowrap" align="center">Borrowed</td>
<td> </td>
<td> </td>
<td colspan="2" nowrap="nowrap" align="center">Outstanding</td>
<td> </td>
<td> </td>
<td colspan="2" nowrap="nowrap" align="center">Available</td>
<td> </td></tr>
<tr style="font-size: 1px;"><td style="border-top: #000000 1px solid;" colspan="21" align="left"> </td></tr>
<tr style="background: #cceeff;" valign="bottom"><td>
<div style="text-indent: -15px; margin-left: 15px;">CMS Energy (a)</div></td>
<td> </td>
<td colspan="3" align="center">April 2, 2012</td>
<td> </td>
<td align="left">$</td>
<td align="right">550</td>
<td> </td>
<td> </td>
<td align="left">$</td>
<td align="right">—</td>
<td> </td>
<td> </td>
<td align="left">$</td>
<td align="right">3</td>
<td> </td>
<td> </td>
<td align="left">$</td>
<td align="right">547</td>
<td> </td></tr>
<tr valign="bottom"><td>
<div style="text-indent: -15px; margin-left: 15px;">Consumers (b)</div></td>
<td> </td>
<td colspan="3" nowrap="nowrap" align="center">September 21, 2011</td>
<td> </td>
<td> </td>
<td align="right">30</td>
<td> </td>
<td> </td>
<td> </td>
<td align="right">—</td>
<td> </td>
<td> </td>
<td> </td>
<td align="right">30</td>
<td> </td>
<td> </td>
<td> </td>
<td align="right">—</td>
<td> </td></tr>
<tr style="background: #cceeff;" valign="bottom"><td>
<div style="text-indent: -15px; margin-left: 15px;">Consumers</div></td>
<td> </td>
<td colspan="3" align="center">March 30, 2012</td>
<td> </td>
<td> </td>
<td align="right">500</td>
<td> </td>
<td> </td>
<td> </td>
<td align="right">—</td>
<td> </td>
<td> </td>
<td> </td>
<td align="right">300</td>
<td> </td>
<td> </td>
<td> </td>
<td align="right">200</td>
<td> </td></tr>
<tr valign="bottom"><td>
<div style="text-indent: -15px; margin-left: 15px;">Consumers</div></td>
<td> </td>
<td colspan="3" align="center">August 9, 2013</td>
<td> </td>
<td> </td>
<td align="right">150</td>
<td> </td>
<td> </td>
<td> </td>
<td align="right">—</td>
<td> </td>
<td> </td>
<td> </td>
<td align="right">—</td>
<td> </td>
<td> </td>
<td> </td>
<td align="right">150</td>
<td> </td></tr>
<tr style="font-size: 1px;"><td style="border-top: #000000 3px double;" colspan="21" align="left"> </td></tr></table></div>
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<td> </td>
<td>CMS Energy's average borrowings during the nine months ended September 30, 2010, totaled $1 million, with a weighted-average annual interest rate of 1.0 percent, at LIBOR plus 0.75 percent.</td></tr>
<tr style="font-size: 3pt;"><td> </td></tr>
<tr valign="top"><td nowrap="nowrap" align="left">(b)</td>
<td> </td>
<td>Secured revolving letter of credit facility.</td></tr></table></div>
<div style="margin-top: 6pt; font-size: 10pt;" align="left"><b>Short-term Borrowings: </b>Under Consumers' revolving accounts receivable sales program, Consumers may transfer up to $250 million of accounts receivable, subject to certain eligibility requirements. Effective January 1, 2010, transactions entered into under this program are accounted for as secured borrowings rather than as sales. For additional details, see Note 1, New Accounting Standards. At September 30, 2010, $250 million of accounts receivable were eligible for transfer, and no accounts receivable had been transferred under the program. </div>
<div style="margin-top: 6pt; font-size: 10pt;" align="left">Consumers' average short-term borrowings during the nine months ended September 30, 2010, totaled $1 million, with a weighted average annual interest rate of 0.2 percent. </div>
<div style="margin-top: 6pt; font-size: 10pt;" align="left"><b>Contingently Convertible Securities: </b>At September 30, 2010, the significant terms of CMS Energy's contingently convertible securities were as follows: </div>
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<td> </td>
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<td colspan="2" nowrap="nowrap" align="center">Outstanding</td>
<td> </td>
<td> </td>
<td colspan="2" nowrap="nowrap" align="center">Adjusted</td>
<td> </td>
<td> </td>
<td colspan="2" nowrap="nowrap" align="center">Adjusted</td>
<td> </td></tr>
<tr style="font-size: 8pt;" valign="bottom"><td nowrap="nowrap" align="left">Security</td>
<td> </td>
<td colspan="2" nowrap="nowrap" align="center">Maturity</td>
<td> </td>
<td> </td>
<td colspan="2" nowrap="nowrap" align="center">(In Millions)</td>
<td> </td>
<td> </td>
<td colspan="2" nowrap="nowrap" align="center">Conversion Price</td>
<td> </td>
<td> </td>
<td colspan="2" nowrap="nowrap" align="center">Trigger Price</td>
<td> </td></tr>
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<div style="text-indent: -15px; margin-left: 15px;">3.375% senior notes (a)</div></td>
<td> </td>
<td> </td>
<td align="right">2023</td>
<td> </td>
<td> </td>
<td align="left">$</td>
<td align="right">131</td>
<td> </td>
<td> </td>
<td align="left">$</td>
<td align="right">9.67</td>
<td> </td>
<td> </td>
<td align="left">$</td>
<td align="right">11.60</td>
<td> </td></tr>
<tr valign="bottom"><td>
<div style="text-indent: -15px; margin-left: 15px;">2.875% senior notes (a)</div></td>
<td> </td>
<td> </td>
<td align="right">2024</td>
<td> </td>
<td> </td>
<td> </td>
<td align="right">288</td>
<td> </td>
<td> </td>
<td> </td>
<td align="right">13.36</td>
<td> </td>
<td> </td>
<td> </td>
<td align="right">16.03</td>
<td> </td></tr>
<tr style="background: #cceeff;" valign="bottom"><td>
<div style="text-indent: -15px; margin-left: 15px;">5.50% senior notes</div></td>
<td> </td>
<td> </td>
<td align="right">2029</td>
<td> </td>
<td> </td>
<td> </td>
<td align="right">173</td>
<td> </td>
<td> </td>
<td> </td>
<td align="right">14.46</td>
<td> </td>
<td> </td>
<td> </td>
<td align="right">18.80</td>
<td> </td></tr>
<tr style="font-size: 1px;"><td style="border-top: #000000 3px double;" colspan="17" align="left"> </td></tr></table></div>
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<td>During 20 of the last 30 trading days ended September 30, 2010, the adjusted trigger prices were met for these securities and, as a result, the securities are convertible at the option of the security holders for the three months ending December 31, 2010.</td></tr></table></div>
<div style="margin-top: 6pt; font-size: 10pt;" align="left">During the three months ended September 30, 2010, no other trigger price contingencies were met that would have allowed the holders of the convertible securities to convert the securities to cash and equity. </div>
<div style="margin-top: 6pt; font-size: 10pt;" align="left">In July 2010, holders tendered 250,000 shares of 4.50 percent cumulative convertible preferred stock for voluntary conversion. The conversion value per share of preferred stock was $89.43. CMS Energy issued 614,940 shares of its common stock and paid $13 million cash on settlement. </div>
<div style="margin-top: 6pt; font-size: 10pt;" align="left">In July 2010, holders tendered $8 million principal amount of 3.375 percent senior notes for voluntary conversion. The conversion value per $1,000 principal amount of convertible note was $1,666.57. CMS Energy issued 331,008 shares of its common stock and paid $8 million cash on settlement. </div></div>
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<div style="margin-top: 6pt; font-size: 10pt;" align="left">In September 2010, holders tendered 633,971 shares of 4.50 percent cumulative convertible preferred stock for voluntary conversion. The average conversion value per share of preferred stock was $103.88. CMS Energy issued 1,834,456 shares of its common stock and paid $32 million cash on settlement of these conversions in October 2010. </div>
<div style="margin-top: 6pt; font-size: 10pt;" align="left">In September 2010, CMS Energy exercised its mandatory conversion rights for all of its outstanding 4.50 percent cumulative convertible preferred stock. The conversion value per share of preferred stock was $104.22. CMS Energy issued 11,276,277 shares of its common stock and paid $194 million on settlement of these conversions in October 2010. </div>
<div style="margin-top: 6pt; font-size: 10pt;" align="left">As of September 30, 2010, CMS Energy reclassified preferred stock of $226 million to a current liability. </div>
<div style="margin-top: 6pt; font-size: 10pt;" align="left"><b>Dividend Restrictions: </b>Under provisions of CMS Energy's senior notes indenture, at September 30, 2010, payment of common stock dividends by CMS Energy was limited to $981 million. </div>
<div style="margin-top: 6pt; font-size: 10pt;" align="left">Under the provisions of its articles of incorporation, at September 30, 2010, Consumers had $425 million of unrestricted retained earnings available to pay common stock dividends to CMS Energy. Provisions of the Federal Power Act and the Natural Gas Act appear to restrict dividends payable by Consumers to the amount of Consumers' retained earnings. Several decisions from FERC suggest that under a variety of circumstances common stock dividends from Consumers would not be limited to amounts in Consumers' retained earnings. Any decision by Consumers to pay common stock dividends in excess of retained earnings would be based on specific facts and circumstances and would result only after a formal regulatory filing process. </div>
<div style="margin-top: 6pt; font-size: 10pt;" align="left">For the nine months ended September 30, 2010, CMS Energy received $259 million of common stock dividends from Consumers. </div></div> </div>
5: FINANCINGS
The following is a summary of significant long-term debt transactions during the nine months ended September 30, 2010:
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Information about short-term and long-term debt arrangements, which includes amounts of borrowings under each line of credit, note payable, commercial paper issue, bonds indenture, debenture issue, and any other contractual agreement to repay funds, and about the underlying arrangements, rationale for a classification as long-term, including repayment terms, interest rates, collateral provided, restrictions on use of assets and activities, whether or not in compliance with debt covenants, and other matters important to users of the financial statements, such as the effects of refinancing and noncompliance with debt covenants.
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-Name Regulation S-X (SX)
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-Name Statement of Financial Accounting Standard (FAS)
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