Located in Filer Township near Manistee, Michigan, the 60-megawatt Filer City Station first achieved Clean Corporate Citizen designation December 22, 1999. The Clean Corporate Citizen program is a voluntary program which requires renewal each year. It requires qualifying facilities to maintain an environmental management system, identify and implement pollution prevention activities and maintain compliance with all applicable environmental permit requirements.

"We’re constantly looking for ways to improve Filer City Station’s environmental practices, from recycling waste paper, cardboard, batteries and waste oil to minimizing our use of waste water," said Larry Roels, Filer City Station’s supervisor of special projects and administrator of the plant’s Clean Corporate Citizen program. "Reducing emissions of any kind coming from the plant is just good business practice," said Roels.

Recently the T.E.S. Filer City Station earned certification as a charter member of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s National Environmental Achievement Track Program. The Program was designed by the EPA to recognize top environmental performers. The Filer City Station was one of 225 entities nationwide that received this top environmental performance recognition on December 13, 2000. The plant has also achieved qualification in conformance with the ISO 14001 international performance standard for environmental management systems, documenting that it is in full compliance with the requirements of that standard.

T.E.S. Filer City Station is a coal-fueled cogeneration power plant that utilizes state-of-the-art pollution control equipment. It is capable of generating 60 megawatts of electricity and up to 100,000 pounds per hour of industrial process steam. CMS Generation and Tondu Energy Systems each own 50 percent of the plant, which is operated by CMS Generation.

CMS Energy Corporation has annual sales of $9 billion and assets of about $16 billion throughout the U.S. and around the world with businesses in electric and natural gas utility operations; independent power production; natural gas pipelines, gathering, processing and storage; oil and gas exploration and production; and energy marketing, services and trading.

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