Retired coal power-station site in Michigan, United States of America. Approximate location 42.6603, -83.2983.
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DTE Pontiac North LLC is a retired coal power station in Michigan, United States of America. Its current lifecycle status is “Retired” — so it is not yet, or no longer, generating at full output. It ranks #4352 of 10,938 United States of America power plants by installed capacity. In context, coal supplies about 16.3% of United States of America's electricity; the national grid averages 384 gCO₂/kWh (43.0% low-carbon) (2025).
Plant data: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0), id CT-1893.
Known, modelled and calculated values are kept separate. Missing fields are shown as unavailable.
The capacity and/or fuel fields on this page include a source-backed provenance label from GEM, an official registry, Wikidata, OSM, or a cross-source match.
capacity: EIA-860M May 2026 retired generator inventory, summed by Plant ID; fuel: Climate TRACE
At 28.9 MW, DTE Pontiac North LLC is below the median coal plant in United States of America (558 MW). Its lifecycle status is Retired; it no longer generates electricity. Coal plants burn pulverised coal to raise high-pressure steam for a turbine; they run as baseload but are the most carbon-intensive mainstream source and the first targeted for retirement or efficiency retrofits.
Capacity comparison computed from the WRI Global Power Plant Database; fuel-type context is general engineering background.
The #774 largest coal power plant of 802 in United States of America by capacity.
United States of America has 802 coal power plants in this dataset, together about 621,194 MW of capacity.
Coordinates 42.6603, -83.2983 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.
DTE Pontiac North LLC was a coal-fired power station in Michigan, United States of America and was retired.
