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Power plant · Gas, steam turbine Operating

Capacity: Capacity: sourceEIA-860M · Oct 30, 2026Open licenseMW

Commissioned: 1975
Net generation, 2025: 82,624 MWh
Grid: 345 kV to ITC Transmission (MISO)
Location: Bay County, Michigan
Operated by: Consumers Energy Co - (MI)

Net generation, 2025: 82,624MWh
Fuel burned, 2025: 2,097,714MMBtu
Capacity factor, 2025: 0.7%
Heat rate, 2025: 25,389Btu/kWh

Capacity factor % of full output, by year

Heat rate Btu per kWh, by year

Net generation, fuel burned, capacity factor and heat rate by year, newest first, as EIA's bulk electricity file states them.
Year	Net generation (MWh)	Fuel burned (MMBtu)	Capacity factor	Heat rate (Btu/kWh)
2026 (8 of 12 months)	46,445	1,189,221	—	25,605
2025	82,624	2,097,714	0.7%	25,389
2024	80,076	1,861,371	0.7%	23,245
2023	613,177	7,344,473	5.0%	11,978
2022	3,067,167	34,217,192	25.0%	11,156
2021	3,082,146	34,159,345	25.1%	11,083
2020	1,654,353	18,680,224	13.4%	11,292
2019	1,819,804	20,421,224	14.8%	11,222
2018	2,399,523	26,947,655	19.5%	11,230
2017	2,652,290	29,106,456	21.6%	10,974
2016	2,251,735	25,429,503	18.3%	11,293
2015	1,991,000	20,942,320	16.2%	10,518
2014	2,048,506	21,975,514	16.7%	10,728
2013	2,664,072	28,249,645	21.7%	10,604
2012	2,282,073	24,615,674	18.5%	10,786
2011	2,761,537	29,765,107	22.5%	10,778
2010	2,908,623	30,823,230	23.7%	10,597
2009	2,769,535	29,052,299	22.6%	10,490
2008	2,150,077	23,273,631	17.5%	10,825
2007	3,877,890	41,289,884	31.6%	10,648
2006	3,765,886	39,649,584	30.7%	10,529
2005	4,231,332	45,186,483	34.4%	10,679
2004	3,596,058	37,092,450	29.2%	10,315
2003 (10 of 12 months)	3,173,823	32,509,941	—	10,243
2002	4,474,258	44,291,325	36.4%	9,899
2001	4,541,738	45,068,519	37.0%	9,923

How these are worked out

Net generation and fuel burned are the monthly figures EIA publishes in its bulk electricity file, from the plant's Form 923 reports; a year is the sum of its months. Capacity factor is a full year's net generation over today's nameplate capacity times the hours in that year (8,784 in a leap year), so a plant uprated or partly retired since reads against its current size; heat rate is fuel burned over net generation, for plants that burn fuel. A year with fewer than twelve months stated has no capacity factor, and a value outside the plausible range is left blank rather than shown. By month, the charts apply the same rules to each month's own hours and fuel.

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Sources EIA-860M · GEM · EIA

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EIA-860MOpen license · retrieved Nov 4, 2026
GEMOpen license, with credit · retrieved Oct 26, 2026Global 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.
EIAOpen license · retrieved Nov 1, 2026Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration, Electricity bulk data (Form EIA-923 monthly plant series)

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