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Escanaba Mill

Other power plant · Delta County, Michigan

Nameplate capacity
122 MW
Rank in Michigan
#51
of 289 plants
In service since
1969
January 1969

Details

Primary fuel
Other
Technology
Wood/Wood Waste Biomass
Operator
Billerud Escanaba LLC
County
Delta County
Generating units
3
Share of state capacity
0.34%
Rank among other plants in Michigan
#1 of 55
EIA plant code
10208

Generating units

Individual generating units at Escanaba Mill
UnitTechnologyNameplateSummerOnlineStatus
NO9Wood/Wood Waste Biomass54 MW45 MW1982Operating
NO.7Wood/Wood Waste Biomass39 MW32 MW1969Operating
NO.8Wood/Wood Waste Biomass30 MW23 MW1972Operating

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 122 MW solar plant and a 122 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