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Consumers Energy's utility-owned generation portfolio consists of a hydroelectric system, including part ownership of Ludington Pumped Storage, wind farms, nuclear power plant, and coal-fired plants and natural gas peakers. [24] [25]
The Ludington Pumped Storage Plant is a hydroelectric plant and reservoir in Ludington, Michigan. It was built between 1969 and 1973 at a cost of $315 million and is owned jointly by Consumers Energy and DTE Energy and operated by Consumers Energy. At the time of its construction, it was the largest pumped storage hydroelectric facility in the ...
Norway Hydro Power Plant: Menominee River: 6: Norway Point Hydro Power Plant: Alpena: Thunder Bay River: 4 [43] Peavy Falls Power Plant: Crystal Falls: Michigamme River: 15: Wisconsin Energy Corporation: Prickett Hydro Power Plant: Prickett Lake: Sturgeon River (Michigan) 2: Rogers Hydro Power Plant: Mecosta County: Muskegon River: 7: Consumers ...
Consumers Power Company (now Consumers Energy) began construction on this hydro-electric dam in 1911 and completed it in 1912. [2] The dam, the second of six built by the company on the Au Sable River, [2] is named for the nearby location where there were once five distinct river channels. [3] The current plant is capable of producing 6,000 ...
Mio Dam is a hydro-electric dam located on the Au Sable River in Michigan capable of generating 4.96 MW of electric power. It was the 4th of 6 dams built by Consumers Power between 1906 and 1924 along the Au Sable River and is the furthest upstream of the six.
Hardy Dam (or Hardy Hydroelectric Plant) is an earth-filled embankment dam and powerplant complex on the Muskegon River in Big Prairie Township, Newaygo County, Michigan.At the time of its completion, it was the largest earthen dam in North America east of the Mississippi.
This hydro-electric dam was completed in 1918 and has a capacity of 9,000 kilowatts. [1] It is located 9 miles upstream from Lake Huron and is named for William A. Foote, the founder of Consumers Power, which later became Consumers Energy.
The Hoover Dam in Arizona and Nevada was the first hydroelectric power station in the United States to have a capacity of at least 1,000 MW upon completion in 1936. Since then numerous other hydroelectric power stations have surpassed the 1,000 MW threshold, most often through the expansion of existing hydroelectric facilities.