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Watervliet

Other power plant · Berrien County, Michigan

Nameplate capacity
4.0 MW
Rank in Michigan
#219
of 289 plants
In service since
2013
February 2013

Details

Primary fuel
Other
Technology
Landfill Gas
Operator
Energy Developments, Inc d/b/a EDL
County
Berrien County
Generating units
3
Share of state capacity
0.01%
Rank among other plants in Michigan
#44 of 55
EIA plant code
58546

Generating units

Individual generating units at Watervliet
UnitTechnologyNameplateSummerOnlineStatus
GEN1Landfill Gas1.6 MW1.6 MW2013Operating
GEN2Landfill Gas1.6 MW1.6 MW2013Operating
GEN3Landfill Gas0.8 MW0.8 MW2019Operating

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 4.0 MW solar plant and a 4.0 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