Energy

The ELC Department provides power to our city from the Coldbrook substation. We buy the power from Consumers Energy and use it to power these City assets:

• City streetlights
• City traffic signals
• City buildings
• City parks & cemeteries
• Fire stations
• The fish ladder
• The Fulton Street Market
• The Impound Lot
• John Ball Zoo
• Various parking lots & ramps
• Receptacles for events

8 circuits distribute the electricity from the substation to the City. Cables run mostly in two areas:

1. Underground (in conduits located in duct banks, which run from manhole to manhole)
2. Aerial (on poles)

Most underground lines are in the downtown area. Those downtown cables extend out of the downtown area along major streets.