Cooke

Hydro power plant · Iosco County, Michigan

Nameplate capacity
9.0 MW
Rank in Michigan
#170
of 289 plants
In service since
2011
January 2011

Details

Primary fuel
Hydro
Technology
Conventional Hydroelectric
Operator
Consumers Energy Co - (MI)
County
Iosco County
Generating units
3
Share of state capacity
0.03%
Rank among hydro plants in Michigan
#11 of 51
EIA plant code
1700

Generating units

Individual generating units at Cooke
UnitTechnologyNameplateSummerOnlineStatus
1Conventional Hydroelectric3.0 MW1.5 MW2011Operating
2Conventional Hydroelectric3.0 MW2.9 MW2011Operating
3Conventional Hydroelectric3.0 MW2.7 MW2011Operating

Nameplate is the maximum rated output; summer capacity is what the unit can reliably deliver on a hot day, which is typically lower.

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About this data

From EIA’s inventory of operable generators, May 2026 release. Capacity is nameplate — the maximum rated output of the equipment, not what the plant actually generates over a year, which depends on how often it runs. A 9.0 MW solar plant and a 9.0 MW nuclear plant have the same entry here and produce very different amounts of electricity.

“In service since” is the earliest in-service date among the units still listed, so a site rebuilt around newer equipment can read as younger than the site itself. All Michigan power plants · What Michigan actually generates