Feds Extend Order to Keep Michigan Coal Plant Running

November 20, 2025--Written by Danny Levin, Deputy Editor for Industrial Info Resources (Sugar Land, Texas)--Citing the risk of high demand, the U.S. Department of Energy issued its third order keeping Consumers Energy's (Jackson, Mississippi) 60-year-old, 1.5-gigawatt J.H. Campbell coal-fired plant in Michigan open, well after it was initially scheduled to close in May.Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel and a coalition of environmental groups are challenging the DOE's orders keeping the plant