Tower

Other power plant · Cheboygan County, Michigan

Nameplate capacity
21 MW
Rank in Michigan
#113
of 289 plants
In service since
1971
March 1971

Details

Primary fuel
Other
Technology
Petroleum Liquids
Operator
Wolverine Power Supply Coop
County
Cheboygan County
Generating units
1
Share of state capacity
0.06%
Rank among other plants in Michigan
#12 of 55
EIA plant code
1873

Generating units

Individual generating units at Tower
UnitTechnologyNameplateSummerOnlineStatus
GT4Petroleum Liquids21 MW17 MW1971Operating

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 21 MW solar plant and a 21 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