1962: Big Rock Point plant opens near Charlevoix, the state's first nuclear  plant.
1967: Plans announced for Consumers Power  reactor in Midland.
1972: Reactor problems at Fermi I force plant to permanently shut down.
1984: Poor public relations and high costs force Consumers Energy to drop Midland nuke plans.
1988: Fermi II opens in Monroe. Supplies enough power for 1 million consumers.
1994: Defective welds reported in one dry storage cask at Pallisades.
1997: Damage to emergency safety systems leads to shutdown of two reactors at D.C. Cook plant in Bridgman.
 1997: Big Rock voluntarily switches off. The plant had an excellent safety record, but ran out of space to store waste.
1998: Public meetings held to discuss removal of Fermi I, kept in mothballs for morethan 25 years.