WYANDOTTE

How WYANDOTTE compares

With 78 MW of capacity, WYANDOTTE ranks 31st among the 171 operating power plants Bywatts maps in Michigan and 6th of the 9 operating Coal plants in the state. It accounts for about 0.9% of Michigan's operating Coal capacity and 0.3% of all operating capacity in the state. Nationally it is the 247th-largest of the 324 operating Coal plants in the database. Commissioned in 1948, it is older than 75% of the 168 operating Michigan plants with a recorded commissioning year. It shares Wayne County with 7 other operating plants, including DEARBORN INDUSTRIAL GENERATION and SUMPTER.

Under the same EIA plant code, EIA-860 lists 5 generators at the site with 49 MW of nameplate capacity (this page's HIFLD capacity figure is 78 MW). Net generation was 0.075 GWh in 2024 (a capacity factor under 0.1%). Its generators came online between 1948 and 2007.

Grid neighborhood

The nearest named substation is BROWNSTOWN (345 kV), about 8.3 miles away; the closest transmission line found within 10 miles is a 120 kV line, about 0.9 miles away. Another 11 operating power plants totaling 6,002 MW sit within 25 miles; the largest is MONROE (3,293 MW, Coal).

Computed by Bywatts from HIFLD power plant, substation and transmission line records and EIA-860/923 survey data; distances are straight-line. Sources and methodology