Power Plants in Michigan

Michigan's power sector in numbers

Bywatts maps 171 operating power plants with 26.4 GW of nameplate capacity in Michigan. Natural Gas leads with 35% of that capacity across 29 plants, followed by Coal (33%) and Nuclear (17%). The inventory also includes 52 plants (5.5 GW) that EIA-860 lists as retired and 2 partly retired with no operable units of their recorded fuel; the largest retired plant is RIVER ROUGE (944 MW, retired 2024).

The largest operating plants are MONROE (3,293 MW, Coal, THE DTE ELECTRIC COMPANY), DONALD C COOK (2,285 MW, Nuclear, INDIANA MICHIGAN POWER CO) and LUDINGTON (1,979 MW, Hydro, CONSUMERS ENERGY CO).

Of the 168 operating plants with a recorded commissioning year, 38 came online in 2000 or later and 18 in 2010 or later; the busiest decade for new capacity was the 1970s (8.3 GW).

The largest operators by operating capacity are THE DTE ELECTRIC COMPANY (17 plants, 8.1 GW), CONSUMERS ENERGY CO (18 plants, 6.7 GW) and INDIANA MICHIGAN POWER CO (5 plants, 2.3 GW).

Retail electricity sales in Michigan reached 100.1 TWh in 2025, down 2.3% over ten years and up 1.1% year on year; residential customers took 34.5% of it. The average retail price across all sectors was 14.73 cents per kWh, up 37.0% since 2015.

The database also maps 177 named substations (5 of the 9 with a recorded voltage are rated 345 kV or above), no data centers, 20 solar installers and 59 solar companies in Michigan.

Operating capacity by fuel

Retail electricity sales

Sources: HIFLD power-plant inventory (capacity, fuel, operator), EIA-860 (commissioning year, retirements, operable capacity), EIA retail sales and revenue series through January 2026. Counts are of plants Bywatts lists, not every generator in the state.