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Hardy
Power plant · Hydro
Key facts
Power plant · Hydroran 24% of 2025 Operating- Capacity
- Capacity: sourceEIA-860M · Open licenseMW
- Commissioned
- 1931
- Net generation, 2025
- 64,947 MWh
- Grid
- 138 kV to ITC Transmission (MISO)
- Location
- Newaygo County, Michigan
- Operated by
- Consumers Energy Co - (MI)SourceEIA-860M Preliminary Monthly Electric Generator Inventory
Operations
- Net generation, 2025
- 64,947
MWh - Fuel burned, 2025
- 221,599
MMBtu - Capacity factor, 2025
- 23.5
% - Heat rate, 2025
- Not stated
| Year | Net generation (MWh) | Fuel burned (MMBtu) | Capacity factor | Heat rate (Btu/kWh) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 64,947 | 221,599 | 23.5% | — |
| 2024 | 71,566 | 244,184 | 25.9% | — |
| 2023 | 76,468 | 260,909 | 27.7% | — |
| 2022 | 79,156 | 270,080 | 28.7% | — |
| 2021 | 83,127 | 735,174 | 30.1% | — |
| 2020 | 115,495 | 1,012,544 | 41.7% | — |
| 2019 | 135,801 | 1,209,307 | 49.2% | — |
| 2018 | 104,263 | 949,211 | 37.8% | — |
| 2017 | 118,092 | 1,087,980 | 42.8% | — |
| 2016 | 103,775 | 958,051 | 37.5% | — |
| 2015 | 94,948 | 884,821 | 34.4% | — |
| 2014 | 108,301 | 1,029,944 | 39.2% | — |
| 2013 | 112,750 | 1,075,749 | 40.9% | — |
| 2012 | 91,192 | 867,784 | 33.0% | — |
| 2011 | 98,284 | 954,930 | 35.6% | — |
| 2010 | 79,794 | 778,469 | 28.9% | — |
| 2009 | 113,171 | 1,104,547 | 41.0% | — |
| 2008 | 98,685 | 972,444 | 35.7% | — |
| 2007 | 93,465 | 923,805 | 33.9% | — |
| 2006 | 121,027 | 1,200,467 | 43.9% | — |
| 2005 | 89,296 | 892,871 | 32.4% | — |
| 2004 | 113,154 | 1,134,029 | 40.9% | — |
| 2003 | 68,889 | 705,492 | 25.0% | — |
| 2002 | 85,403 | 868,805 | 30.9% | — |
| 2001 | 137,458 | 1,420,354 | 49.8% | — |
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.
Sources
3 sourcesSources
- EIA-860M
- 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.
- EIASource: U.S. Energy Information Administration, Electricity bulk data (Form EIA-923 monthly plant series)