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Ottawa County asks MPSC to delay Campbell plant closure, citing grid reliability concerns
Summary
The Ottawa County Board of Commissioners passed a resolution asking the Michigan Public Service Commission to postpone Consumers Energy's planned 2025 closure of the J.H. Campbell power plant until a new hearing addresses grid reliability and other concerns.
The Ottawa County Board of Commissioners voted to send a formal request to the Michigan Public Service Commission (MPSC) asking that the scheduled May 2025 closure of the J.H. Campbell power plant be postponed and reviewed at a new hearing.
The resolution, adopted Feb. 25, 2025, asks the MPSC to “postpone this closure until such time as a new hearing can be held” so the commission can address concerns about grid reliability raised by the North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC), the county said in the resolution text read into the record.
Why it matters: The county says the plant serves local and regional demand and that NERC’s December 2024 long-term reliability assessment flagged the MISO grid for a high…
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