Renewables

Here’s how Consumers Energy is working toward clean energy goals

The utility’s clean energy goals include bringing 8,000 MW of solar online by 2040.
Here’s how Consumers Energy is working toward clean energy goals
(RNG technology captures methane released by decomposing organic wastes — like the manure from cows on dairy farms — and purifies it. Photo Source: Burns & McDonnell.)

Consumers Energy reported announcing projects in 2024 that will bring online 691 megawatts (MW) of clean energy and storage projects in the coming years.

The projects include wind, solar and renewable natural gas facilities (RNG) as well as battery storage capacity.

Solar and wind projects announced this year are a mix of company-built and owned projects and power purchase agreements (PPAs).

Consumers Energy also worked with farmers to announce construction of multiple RNG facilities across the state following expansion of the utility’s MI Clean Air program. In many cases, RNG is considered carbon negative, as it captures and prevents more emissions than it emits.

Consumers Energy’s clean energy goals include bringing 8,000 MW of solar online by 2040 and achieving net-zero carbon emissions from its electric generation and distribution systems.

The Michigan utility’s Clean Energy Plan also calls for eliminating coal as an energy source in 2025 and meeting 90 percent of customers’ energy needs through clean sources.

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