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- 10 · 100 · 1,000 MW
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Belle River: location and 3 exact-grade projects within 15 mi. Basemap: Protomaps, © OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL.
Belle River
Power plant · Coal
Key facts
Power plant · Coalran 43% of 2024 Retiring- Capacity
- Capacity: sourceEIA-860M · Open licenseMW
- Commissioned
- 1981
- Net generation, 2024
- 6,244,494 MWh
- Grid
- 345 kV to ITC Transmission (MISO)
- Location
- St Clair County, Michigan
- Operated by
- DTE Electric Company
Output
- Gas
- Coal
- Oil
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- Technology
- Coal source: “Conventional Steam Coal”
- Age
- 45 years since 1981
- Heat rate
- 10,790 Btu/kWh 2025
All 6 attributes from EIA-860M Preliminary Monthly Electric Generator Inventory
| Attribute | Value |
|---|---|
| EPA greenhouse gas reporting (GHGRP) |
|
| Fuel burned (MMBtu), 2025 | 70,028,363 |
| Capacity factor, 2025 | 0.445 |
| Heat rate (Btu/kWh), 2025 | 10,790.2 |
| Net generation (MWh), 2025 | 6,490,002.0 |
| Balancing authority code | MISO |
Retirement
EIA-860M September 2026StatusAt least half of the plant's in-service nameplate capacity is scheduled to retire, on dates its owner has reported to EIA. As of EIA-860M for September 2026.- Next scheduled retirement
- December 2028
- Capacity scheduled to retire
- 1,395 MW
- Generators scheduled to retire
- 2
- Share of in-service capacity scheduled
- 84%
- Capacity still in service
- 1,664.4 MW
| Generator | Technology | Nameplate | State | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ST1 | Conventional Steam Coal | 697.5 MW | Scheduled to retire | December 2028 |
| ST2 | Conventional Steam Coal | 697.5 MW | Scheduled to retire | December 2028 |
Grid
EIA-860 2025Grid fieldsAs the plant reported them to EIA-860 for 2025 (Schedule 2).- Grid voltage at the plant
- 345 kV
- Transmission or distribution system owner
- ITC Transmission
- Balancing authority
- Midcontinent Independent Transmission System Operator, Inc..
- NERC region
- RFC
Transmission lines within 15 mi (10)
Can the connection be reused?
A plant that retires usually leaves its substation, transmission connection and interconnection agreement behind, and those may be reusable by a new project at the same site. FERC Order No. 845 lets an interconnection customer use surplus interconnection service at an existing site, and some transmission providers' tariffs let a replacement resource take over a retiring unit's interconnection service, usually within a set time after the retirement. Whether any such right still exists here, who holds it and on what terms depends on the owner, the transmission provider and timing; this page does not establish any of that.
Ownership
3 companies4| Company | Role | Share | As of | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| DTE Electric Company | Operator | EIA-860M | ||
| DTE ENERGY CO | Owner | 100.0% | Dec 31, 2023 | EPA GHGRP |
| DTE Electric Company | Owner | 68.2% | Dec 31, 2025 | EIA-860 |
| Michigan Public Power Agency | Owner | 15.6% | Dec 31, 2025 | EIA-860 |
Timeline
- Stated Units ST1, ST2 scheduled to retire, 1,395 MW · EIA-860M
- In service · EIA-860M
Sources
6 sourcesSources EIA-860M · LBNL · EIA · EIA-860M Preliminary Monthly Electric Generator Inventory · EPA Greenhouse Gas Reporting Program — facility register with parent-company shares (Envirofacts pub_dim_facility; FLIGHT) · EIA-860 Annual Electric Generator Report — Schedule 4 Owner (ownership shares per generator), plus Plant/Generator schedules
Sources
- EIA-860M
- LBNLYin, Nait Belaid & Heleno (2026), Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, OEDI, CC BY 4.0: A Harmonized Geospatial Dataset of U.S. Transmission Lines: Linking FERC Form 1 and HIFLD, 1994-2024. Modified by Inframation: HIFLD-side fields only, names re-cased, coordinates rounded.
- EIASource: U.S. Energy Information Administration, Electricity bulk data (Form EIA-923 monthly plant series)
- EIA-860M Preliminary Monthly Electric Generator Inventory
- EPA Greenhouse Gas Reporting Program — facility register with parent-company shares (Envirofacts pub_dim_facility; FLIGHT)
- EIA-860 Annual Electric Generator Report — Schedule 4 Owner (ownership shares per generator), plus Plant/Generator schedules
Around this plant
Nearby
within 15 mi| Project | Kind | Away | MW |
|---|---|---|---|
| Eastern Power Hydrogen Ready Power Plant Project 2 Under construction | Gas, combined cycle | 3.5 mi | 300 |
| Eastern Power Hydrogen Ready Power Plant Project 1 Under construction | Gas, combined cycle | 3.5 mi | 300 |
| St. Clair Energy Centre 3 Announced | Gas, combustion turbine | 9.7 mi | 245 |
Sources GEM
Sources
- GEMGlobal Integrated Power Tracker, Global Energy Monitor, September 2026 release (https://globalenergymonitor.org/projects/global-integrated-power-tracker), CC BY 4.0. Modified by Inframation: TransitionZero-sourced rows removed; statuses and technologies mapped to Inframation's vocabulary; figures aggregated. Copyright © Global Energy Monitor. Global Integrated Power Tracker, September 2026 release. Distributed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.