The Michigan Public Service Commission has approved Consumers Energy’s latest long-term energy plan that calls for eliminating its coal-fired power in 2025 while also speeding up the deployment of energy storage.
Under the 20-year plan approved in a 115-page MPSC order today, Consumers plans to buy a large natural gas plant in Covert Township next year that state regulators say will help bolster the utility’s electric reliability as it closes the J.H. Campbell Plant in Port Sheldon in 2025, 15 years earlier than originally planned.
“This is a historic moment in Michigan’s clean energy transformation journey,” Consumers President and CEO Garrick Rochow said in a statement. “The Clean Energy Plan is a sea change that positions our company as a national leader and empowers us to deliver reliable energy while protecting the planet for decades to come.”
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Regulators approve Consumers Energy’s ‘historic’ plan to shutter West Mich. coal plant in 2025, speed up energy storage
