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28-519: The plant previously had a total generating capacity of 1,976 MW, prior to the permanent shutdown of generating units 1 and 2 (of four) in October 2010. The remaining units were shut down in September 2013. It was connected to the power grid via numerous 230 kV lines, and also had two interconnections with Detroit Edison and ITC Transmission via a 230 kV line (Lambton-St. Clair #1) and

56-808: A peaking power plant for the utility, generating over 815mW when at full capacity. A turbine replacement project in 2024 is expected to add another 25 years of useful life to the plant, with no current plans to retire the facility. In 2018, the Michigan Public Service Commission approved Blue Water Energy Center, a natural gas combined-cycle plan. This will replace three retiring coal plants, reducing carbon emissions by 70 percent, and provide power to 850,000 homes. Blue Water Energy Center began commercial operation on June 6, 2022. DTE currently operates one nuclear plant, Enrico Fermi Nuclear Generating Station , generating 21% of DTE Electric's power. Two nuclear reactors were planned for

84-611: A 345 kV line (Lambton-St. Clair #2). It is located almost exactly across the St. Clair River from Detroit Edison's St. Clair Power Plant in East China, Michigan . The facility had three 168-metre (551 ft) smokestacks, one of which was equipped with flue-gas desulfurization units, commonly called "scrubbers", to remove sulfur oxide. Emissions from scrubbers at the Lambton station could be seen for over 16 km, although with

112-483: A condition of electric utility deregulation in Michigan, DTE Energy was forced to sell off Detroit Edison's sister subsidiary involved in high-voltage energy transmission: International Transmission Co. (ITC). Detroit Edison's near 11-gigawatt generating capacity is offered to its 7,600-square-mile (20,000 km ) service area, which encompasses 13 counties in the southeastern portion of the lower peninsula . Energy

140-416: A single boiler. It adjoins the high side plant and is located on the south side. Operating conditions are 1,000 °F (538 °C) and 2,520 psi (174,000 hPa). One 563-foot (172 m) smoke stack is used for this unit. Soon afterwards, another stack, identical to the #9 stack, was erected to replace the two short stacks on the high side plant. Both tall stacks remained in service as of 2012. By

168-533: A smokestack” design to reduce the level of pollutants released. However, to better achieve this, the inner smokestacks were lined with asbestos that had to be later removed at great cost. The Trenton Channel Power Plant became ISO 14001 certified in 2001. The plant also donated money for a wildlife observation deck in the Humbug Marsh . The Trenton Channel Power Plant was first fired up in 1924. It had 6 turbine generators with 13 coal-fired boilers. There

196-594: Is distributed via one million utility poles and 44,000 miles (71,000 km) of power lines in these Michigan counties: Huron, Tuscola, Sanilac, Saint Clair, Lapeer, Livingston, Ingham, Oakland, Macomb, Wayne, Washtenaw, Lenawee, and Monroe. Detroit Edison's distribution line voltages are three-phase 4,800 volts (Delta) 4,800/8,320 volts (wye) and 7,620/13,200 volts (Wye) . All new distribution circuits constructed after 1959 are 13,200 volts. The 8,320 volt distribution lines are located in Pontiac, Michigan in an area that

224-466: Is primarily generated by fossil fuels . In 2022, 68.58% of electricity generated by DTE came from coal, gas, and oil. The regional average fossil fuel mix was 65.82%. As of 2022, DTE's emission levels of Carbon Dioxide, Sulfur Dioxide, Nitrogen Oxides are higher than the regional averages, but lower High-Level Nuclear Waste. Detroit Edison was part of a large holding company called North American Edison Company . North American's stock had once been one of

252-520: The Trenton Stacks , was a coal-burning power station located in Trenton , Michigan . Completed in 1924, it is owned by Detroit Edison , a subsidiary of DTE Energy . Part of the facility's property is on the mainland surrounding West Jefferson Avenue in southern Wayne County . The main building – the two- smokestack power station – and the coal yard are located on what is now technically

280-637: The Fort Bend Power Producers, LLC facility outside of Rosenberg, Texas and the Seabreaze landfill gas development in Angleton, Texas, which has yet to be developed. After these projects are operational, the company will have five "landfill conversion facilities which capture and convert dangerous landfill gases to pipeline-quality renewable natural gas". The gases will go to fueling transit buses. In 2024, DTE Energy announced that it

308-687: The Greenwood Energy Center site near Avoca, but were never completed. Since 2009, DTE has driven investment of $ 2.8 billion in renewable energy assets, increasing to $ 4.8 billion by 2024. Since April 2021, DTE Electric operates 18 wind and 31 solar parks, totaling 1,760 megawatts of clean energy, powering 670,000 homes. DTE currently has 18 operational wind parks in their portfolio. As the state's largest investor in and producer of wind energy, DTE produces enough energy from renewable sources to power more than 500,000 homes. DTE currently operates 31 solar parks in Michigan. In May 2016,

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336-658: The Lambton Generating Station site. Construction in Mississauga had already begun in 2011; the original site selection was cancelled during the October 2011 provincial election with the project becoming a key issue during that campaign and the subsequent 2014 campaign . Detroit Edison DTE Electric Company (formerly The Detroit Edison Company ) was founded in 1886. DTE Electric's power generation portfolio includes renewable energy , but

364-441: The bankruptcy of Penn Central left Detroit Edison short of motive power and under capacitated coal hoppers. Detroit Edison then chose to purchase brand new locomotives and coal cars to fit their needs. Purchasing EMD SD40 's and GE U30C 's for mainline motive power as well as High-Side Articulated Gondolas (with a capacity of 185,000 pounds), this new equipment allowed Detroit Edison to move more coal en masse than what Penn Central

392-1029: The company broke ground on a solar array project in Lapeer, Michigan touted as the largest utility-owned solar array east of the Mississippi River. Lapeer Solar Park generates enough electricity to power 9,000 homes. DTE Energy also operates a 10-acre solar installation in Detroit on the site of the abandoned O'Shea Park. DTE and Consumers Energy co-own the Ludington Pumped Storage Plant on Lake Michigan in Mason County, Michigan . In May 2017, DTE Energy announced it had acquired "two landfill-based gas-to-energy operations" in Texas. The company wants to expand its operations to alternative vehicle fuel. The operations it acquired were

420-414: The first plant, at 950 °F (510 °C) and about 1,250 psi (86,000 hPa). Therefore, the first plant became known as the "low side", while the newer plant was known as the "high side". The high side was located to the south of the low side. Two short smoke stacks released gases from the four boilers. Finally in 1968, Unit #9 was placed in service. It is a 550-megawatt turbine generator fed by

448-489: The first power plants in the US to use electrostatic precipitators to capture fly ash from the stacks. Electrostatic precipitators were, however, in use in other industries at the time. In 1950, a second plant started up at the same site and adjoined the first plant. It had two turbine generators, #7 and #8, with a rating of 120 megawatts each. They were fed by a total of 4 boilers. The boilers ran at higher steam conditions than

476-471: The majority of buildings at Lambton Generating Station, including the three large stacks, were imploded . *Calculated figures for CO 2 e are rounded to the nearest tonne. In 2012, plans were announced to relocate a proposed natural gas-powered generating station, originally intended for construction by Greenfield South Power Corporation in Mississauga , near to Etobicoke's Sherway Gardens , to

504-594: The mid-1970s, the low side plant was decommissioned and the boiler house was eventually demolished. In the 2010s, all generators except #9 were closed. In 2016, DTE announced its intention to close the plant as well as the St. Clair Power Plant by 2022 as it began to change to natural gas and renewable energy plants. The retirement of the Trenton and St. Clair plants began in the summer of 2022 and ended that December. Just before dawn on March 15, 2024, at approximately 7:00am EDT, DTE Energy demolished both smokestacks in

532-613: The new holding company, DTE Energy Company , which replaced Detroit Edison Company on the stock exchange, and took over the trading ticker symbol. Current operating DTE Energy's coal and natural gas power plants: Units 1 & 2: 2032 Unit 2: 2026 (gas conversion) In 2016, DTE Energy announced the retirement of three coal-fired generating units among its plants by 2023. The plants are located in River Rouge , St. Clair in East China Township and Trenton . In sum,

560-452: The plants power around 900,000 homes. The Detroit Free Press wrote that employees at the closing plants will be able to transfer to other facilities and will not lose their jobs. River Rouge Power Plant's retirement was expedited to 2021 with its last megawatt produced on May 31, 2021, and formally retired on June 4, 2021. Trenton Channel Power Plant and St. Clair Power Plant retired in 2022, replaced by renewable energy projects. It

588-454: The scrubbers operating properly, these plumes likely had over 90% less SO 2 compared with other coal-fired stations without scrubbers. On November 22, 2016, it was announced that Ontario Power Generation was no longer looking at alternative uses for Lambton Generating Station, and that the facility would be decommissioned in 2017. It was definitively closed in 2020. Demolition work is in progress and should last 2 years. On February 12, 2022,

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616-631: The southern portion of Slocum's Island in the Detroit River . The facility shares this island with Elizabeth Park, which is separated from the facility by Grosse Ile Parkway. The Trenton Channel Power Station and the affiliated Sibley Quarry occupy 458 acres (185 ha) of land along the Detroit River, in which 225 acres (91 ha) of that property is open fields, woods, ponds, and sound berms . The characteristic striped smokestacks were constructed with an innovative “smokestack within

644-709: The twelve component stocks of the May 1896 original Dow Jones Industrial Average . North American Company was broken up by the Securities and Exchange Commission , following the United States Supreme Court decision of April 1, 1946. After that, Detroit Edison operated independently, and publicly traded on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol DTE through the mid-1990s. In early 1996, it became an operating subsidiary of

672-406: Was able to do with their equipment. The trains were maintained by Detroit Edison officials but operated by Penn Central crews. By the late 1980s or early 1990, Detroit Edison discontinued use of their equipment, as Conrail began to supply enough locomotives and rolling stock to meet the power company's needs. Trenton Channel Power Plant The Trenton Channel Power Plant , also known as

700-413: Was announced on December 8, 2022, that Monroe Power Plant will retire units 3 and 4 in 2028 and units 1 and 2 in 2032 (originally 2042). Belle River Power Plant will be repurposed to become a natural gas plant in 2026 (originally 2028). The Belle River gas conversion project is expected to extend the life of the plant by at least 13 more years. The Greenwood Energy Center near Avoca, Michigan serves as

728-665: Was served by Consumers Power Company until the mid-1980s when the area was acquired by Detroit Edison. Edison's subtransmission line voltages are 24,000 volts and 41,600 volts. With the bankruptcy of the Penn Central Transportation railroad in 1970, Detroit Edison sought to continue transporting coal from the Monongahela mines in Pennsylvania to a brand new power plant in Monroe, Michigan . However,

756-454: Was space for 2 additional boilers, but they were never needed. Operating conditions were 750 °F (399 °C) and 420 psi (29,000 hPa). The sixth and last turbine generator arrived by 1929. Each unit produced a rated 50 megawatts of electricity. Five short smoke stacks exhausted gases from the boilers. These were the first Detroit Edison units to use pulverized coal rather than the older style stoker-fired beds of coal. They were also

784-525: Was transforming the land formerly occupied by the Trenton Channel Power Plant into a 220 MW battery energy storage center. In July 2018, DTE Energy filed a proposal to invest $ 13 million into an electric car charging program. The program would upgrade transformers and also include service drops, materials, hardware, new meters and other costs. The program is called Charging Forward program and would also provide consumers rebates. As

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