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River Rouge
Power plant · Coal
Key facts
Power plant · Coal Retired- Capacity
- Capacity: sourceEIA-860M · Open licenseMW
- Commissioned
- 1956
- Net generation, 2023
- -14 MWh
- Grid
- 120 kV to ITC Transmission (MISO)
- Location
- Wayne County, Michigan
- Operated by
- DTE Electric Company
Output
- Gas
- Coal
- Oil
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- Technology
- Coal source: “Conventional Steam Coal”
- Age
- 70 years since 1956
All 3 attributes from EIA-860M Preliminary Monthly Electric Generator Inventory
| Attribute | Value |
|---|---|
| Gem |
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| EPA greenhouse gas reporting (GHGRP) |
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| Balancing authority code | MISO |
Retirement
EIA-860M September 2026StatusEvery generator EIA lists at this plant has retired. As of EIA-860M for September 2026.- Retired
- January 2024
- First unit retired
- June 2016
- Capacity retired
- 944 MW
- Generators retired
- 7
| Generator | Technology | Nameplate | State | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | Conventional Steam Coal | 292.5 MW | Retired | June 2016 |
| 1 | Natural Gas Steam Turbine | 282.6 MW | Retired | December 2016 |
| 3 | Conventional Steam Coal | 358.1 MW | Retired | May 2021 |
| IC1 | Petroleum Liquids | 2.7 MW | Retired | January 2024 |
| IC2 | Petroleum Liquids | 2.7 MW | Retired | January 2024 |
| IC3 | Petroleum Liquids | 2.7 MW | Retired | January 2024 |
| IC4 | Petroleum Liquids | 2.7 MW | Retired | January 2024 |
By technology
| Technology | Retired | Scheduled to retire |
|---|---|---|
| Conventional Steam Coal | 650.6 MW | |
| Natural Gas Steam Turbine | 282.6 MW | |
| Petroleum Liquids | 10.8 MW |
Grid
EIA-860 2025Grid fieldsAs the plant reported them to EIA-860 for 2025 (Schedule 2).- Grid voltage at the plant
- 120 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)
- Delray 120 kV line
- Dearborn Industrial Generation 230 kV line
- Crestwood 120 kV line
- Detroit Edison King Road 120 kV line
- Detroit Edison King Road 120 kV line
- Brownstown 230 kV line
- Trenton Channel - Detroit Edison King Road 120 kV
- Detroit Edison King Road 120 kV line
- Detroit Edison King Road 120 kV line
- Northeast Mi 120 kV line
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 companies3| Company | Role | Share | As of | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| DTE Electric Company | Operator | EIA-860M | ||
| DTE ENERGY CO | Owner | 100.0% | Dec 31, 2023 | EPA GHGRP |
| DTE Energy Services | Owner | 100.0% | Dec 31, 2025 | EIA-860 |
Timeline
- Stated Units IC1, IC2, IC3, IC4 scheduled to retire, 10.8 MW · EIA-860M
- Stated Unit 3 scheduled to retire, 358.1 MW · EIA-860M
- Stated Unit 1 scheduled to retire, 282.6 MW · EIA-860M
- Stated Unit 2 scheduled to retire, 292.5 MW · EIA-860M
- In service · EIA-860M
Sources
7 sourcesSources EIA-860M · GEM · 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
- 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.
- 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| East Windsor cogeneration centre 2 Under construction | Gas, combustion turbine | 6.7 mi | 100 |
| City of Detroit Greenfield Permitted | Solar | 10.2 mi | 7 |
| City of Detroit Castle Solar Under construction | Solar | 10.6 mi | 10 |
| Trenton Channel Energy Center Under construction | Storage | 11.0 mi | 220 |
Sources GEM · EIA-860M · Berkeley Lab
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.
- EIA-860M
- Berkeley LabLawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and GridTracker, Queued Up data file (2026 edition), CC BY 4.0. Modified by Inframation: non-ISO and MISO regions only; MISO rows labelled with the date the file's queue data runs to; statuses and technologies mapped to Inframation's vocabulary. Queued Up Data File. Copyright (c) 2026, The Regents of the University of California, through Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (subject to receipt of any required approvals from the U.S. Dept. of Energy) & GridTracker.