This Michigan coal plant is being turned into a giant battery

Trenton Channel Power Plant, a coal plant that operated for nearly 100 years, closed in 2022. Now the site is turning into a battery storage center.

For nearly 100 years, the Trenton Channel Power Plant sat along the banks of the Detroit River, about 22 miles south of downtown Detroit, burning coal. The plant began operating in 1924, and was the largest project the local electricity company (now called DTE Energy) had undertaken.