The new, high-tech compressor units ― which replaced equipment dating to the 1940s ― will help Consumers Energy monitor and adjust gas flow more easily and run more efficiently to reduce air emissions.
Each of Freedom's five compressors are enormous V-12 engines, capable of generating more than 3,750 horsepower. They've replaced 13 aging units the company has retired and plans to remove in 2023.
Consumers Energy safely operates approximately 30,000 miles of natural gas pipeline, as well as one of the nation's largest underground storage system comprised of 15 fields and nearly 1,000 wells, totaling 309 billion cubic feet of gas storage capacity.
Freedom Compressor Station, a key piece of the system, takes in natural gas purchased for customers at lower prices, then boosts pressure to push supplies to the transmission network as well as underground storage fields, which provide up to 80 percent of the natural gas needed on the coldest winter days.
Consumers Energy, Michigan's largest energy provider, is the principal subsidiary of CMS Energy (NYSE:CMS), providing natural gas and/or electricity to 6.8 million of the state's 10 million residents in all 68 Lower Peninsula counties.
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SOURCE Consumers Energy
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