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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 ...
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 ...
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.
The original name of the dam was Junction Hydro, but it was renamed to honor a Consumers board of directors member, Charles W. Tippy. The dam spans the Manistee River about 170 miles west from its headwaters, and approximately 20 miles east of its mouth with Lake Michigan, which includes Manistee Lake in Manistee as well. [1]
Jupiter maintains ownership of the 100 MW, but under the power purchase agreement, the battery energy storage systems become part of Consumers' power capacity requirement in Michigan. Under new ...
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.