Coal And Nuclear Out At Consumers, Wind And Solar In – Michigan Capitol Confidential

Coal And Nuclear Out At Consumers, Wind And Solar In – Michigan Capitol Confidential:

• Intermittent sources make electric outages more likely? ‘Get used to it’

The Michigan Public Service Commission recently approved Consumers Energy’s plan to dismantle most of its conventional-fuel generating capacity. 
The company says it will replace that capacity with wind turbines and solar arrays. 
It also says these other sources can produce 56 percent of the electricity it will need to generate in 2040.

...The company says it can replace the lost capacity by installing enough industrial wind turbines to generate 550 megawatts of electricity and enough photovoltaic solar collectors to produce 6,000 megawatts. 
By comparison, wind and solar provided just 5% of the electricity used by Michigan customers in 2017. 
Coal was the largest source of electricity, at 37%, while nuclear provided 28%, and another 23% came from natural gas..."
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