I'm surprised Unit 3 was not supercritical since Unit 2 was. Maybe supercritical in 1967 was bleeding edge and they had enough problems that they were chicken to try it again.
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| gem By Nov 2025, it had cost $113m to keep the plant running past its planned May 2025 retirement. |
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| Detroit News posted Energy regulators as far away as South Dakota are resisting having to pay to keep a coal-burning power plant in Michigan operating. Full story: bit.ly/3PNyPvf [paywall, but I was able to get the name of the plant.] 📸 Brett Farmer, Special to the Detroit News Mike Himmel: The real story DETnews and other mainstream media won't share with You is 1) Midwest is already at high risk of blackouts according the the experts MISO (Midcontinent Independent System Operator). 2) Data centers are going to put a massive spike on demand with just 1 of the 14 planned (Saline) by itself is going to increase DTE's demand by 25% or the equivelent of a million customers. 3) Whitmers appointed minions at the MPSC are approving the fast tracked applications quickly even as Nessel calls for more hearings and transparency 3) Michigan has had renewable mandates for the last 17 years and its still less than 10% of our total supply and like anything they take the lowest handing fruit first (meaning the projects with the best output for the assets deployed) 4) combine this with Michigans -0- carbon mandate and we are headed to a self created energy crisis. We are going to need not just that coal power plant but in reality another large nuke plant that will take a decade to build. We are literally putting the cart before the horse. The big question is why are the same people that pretended they cared about the climate now suddenly ignoring the will of the people, putting our energy and water supplies at risk? DETNEWS is derelect in their duties as a main news source for Michigan to not even ask the most basic question, but here DETNEWS prestends coal power cost more than renewables. Where is all the electricity going to come from? And don't accept lame answers like windmills and batteries. DETNEWS step up Your game! |
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| mlive, first of 82 photos This article about Trump forcing the plant to stay open is not behind a paywall. |
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| Mining #Shorts posted The fight over Michigan’s J.H. Campbell coal plant has turned into a bigger legal test over who controls America’s power grid. Consumers Energy planned to shut the Ottawa County plant on May 31, 2025. Days before that retirement date, U.S. Energy Secretary Chris Wright ordered it to keep running for 90 days under Section 202(c) of the Federal Power Act. Three extensions followed. Nearly a year later, the plant is still being kept alive, and the backlash is growing. The Department of Energy argues the order was justified by a national energy emergency and the risk of electricity shortages. Michigan, Illinois, Minnesota and environmental groups see something very different: an abuse of emergency powers. Their case is straightforward. A planned coal retirement isn’t the same as an immediate grid crisis, and power reliability already has state, regional and federal planning channels. Then there’s the cost. Consumers previously said closing Campbell would save customers $600 million by 2040. Keeping it open reportedly costs $615,000 a day [wow. why?], with at least $135 million tied to operations after its scheduled retirement. Consumers isn’t fighting the order directly. It wants assurance it can recover the cost from the wider MISO grid. That’s why everyone is watching this case. A ruling against the federal order could limit Washington’s ability to keep aging coal plants running. A ruling in favor could turn emergency authority into a powerful new tool for delaying coal retirements across the U.S. |
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