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 open.
