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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 ...
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 ...
Consumers Energy announced a new 700 MW plant to be built near Flint beginning about 2015, [22] while the city of Holland replaced its coal plant with a 114 MW natural gas plant. [23] In April 2018, DTE received permission for a 1,100 MW natural gas plant to replace a coal plant in St. Clair.
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.
Consumers Energy owns 13 hydroelectric facilities or dams along five rivers in Michigan. [26] Built between 1906 and 1935, the hydros have a combined generating capacity of about 130 megawatts, enough to serve about 70,000 people.
Following is a list of dams and reservoirs in Michigan.. Major dams are linked below. The National Inventory of Dams defines any "major dam" as being 50 feet (15 m) tall with a storage capacity of at least 5,000 acre-feet (6,200,000 m 3), or of any height with a storage capacity of 25,000 acre-feet (31,000,000 m 3).
Construction of the dam began in 1905, and its power plant was commissioned in March 1906. Owned and operated by Consumers Energy, the primary purpose of the dam is hydroelectric power generation. [2] [3] [4] On December 22, 1921, the original 4.5-megawatt (6,000 hp) power plant was destroyed in a fire.
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.