OTTAWA COUNTY, MI - Consumers Energy has lost an average of about $615,000 each day operating a West Michigan coal plant past its intended shutdown date under emergency orders from the Trump administration, and utility executives say there’s no end in sight.

In just over four months, the utility ran up $80 million in net costs to keep the J.H. Campbell power plant on life support, the utility disclosed in a Thursday, Oct. 30 regulatory filing.

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