ML20217E910
ML20217E910 | |
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Site: | Palisades, Big Rock Point File:Consumers Energy icon.png |
Issue date: | 04/21/1998 |
From: | Haskell N CONSUMERS ENERGY CO. (FORMERLY CONSUMERS POWER CO.) |
To: | NRC OFFICE OF INFORMATION RESOURCES MANAGEMENT (IRM) |
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Q A CMSEnergy Ownpany Pahsades Nuclear Plant Tel: 616 764 2276 27780 Blue Star Memonal Highway far 616 764 249C Covert. MI 49043 Director. Lkensing April 21,1998 U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission ATTN: Document Control Desk Washington, DC 20555 DOCKET 50-255 - LICENSE DPR BIG ROCK POINT DOCKET 50-255 - LICENSE QPR PALISADES PLANT 1997 CONSUMERS ENERGY COMPANY ANNUAL REPORT in accordance with the requirements of 10 CFR 50.71(b), attached is the 1997 Consumers Energy Company's annual financial report, including the certified financial statements.
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in Afdhems ExcepsasNosed Percent . .
December 31 1997 1996 Change .
Revenue Electric utility $2,515 52,446 2.8 Gas utility 1,204 1,282 (6.1)
Independent power production <ai 700 542 29.2
, Oil and gas exploration and production"" 168 153 9.8 I
Natural ga: transmission, storage and processing => 143 92 55.4 Marketing, services and trading > 892 258 245.7
- International energy distribution <a' 41 23 78.3 Other 9 13 (30.8)
Total'"'# 55,672 $4,809 17.9 r
Consolidated revenue 54,787 $4,333 10.5 Consolidated net income 5 268 5 240 11.7 -
Return on equity (percent) 14.6 15.2 (3.9)
Per common share Net income-basic $ 2.63 $ 2.45 7.3 Net income - diluted S 2.61 5 2.44 7.0 Dividends declared S 1.14 5 1.02 11.8 Book value S t H.73 517.00 10.2 Market value (year end) 544.06 533.63 31.0 ,
takincludes Chis Enegrk sharr ufumenwtulawd unwnw (b)Behnv snwotvmpany rismunatums Prelax OperatingIncome Ahlhons ofIAdlars EJoctric MNty Gas UtlNty Indeper M Oiland Gas NaturalGas Operations OperaNans Power Production Exploration and Transmission, Production Storage and Processing 412 156 158 * '" 33 15) 372 3, 26 ou 30 12 1
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6 LeHer to Shareholders CMS Energyis the oniy major utility to out-he year 199. was another excel-perform the S&P 500 on _L lent one for CMS Energy, both totalreturn during the in terms ofearnings performance and business growth.
last five years.
Net income increased 12 percent to $268 million and earnings per share grew by 7 percent to $2.63, despite adverse weather that affected the company's utility earnings. Earnings growth was propelled by a strong 32 percent increase in operating income from international operations.
As a result of the company's continued strong performance, the CMS Energy common dividend was increased by 11 percent-the fifth consecutive year ofdouble-digit Rught Nmam E NcCormick Jr, ,
cw"reemo mereases.
'de's4TA[I"' The market continued to recognize CMS Energy's superior performance, with the price of the company's stock increasing 31 percent during the year.
Total shareholder return, including dividends, reached 35 percent in 1997.
Over the past five years (1992 through 1997), CMS Energy's growth 2
s 6-Font ConseNdated A'arket Prke Dividende b
Tots!Ceturn AletIncome !\nr Share 9lnr Share 1% em Mellwm ofIMlars kor l'nd 181 5 268 44 / ia 51.14 151 4 2D4 335..
o.lusn as lIlWe .
in stock price and its total return have u u n a a a r
a a n and more than S5 billion ofprojects ,
been more than twice any of the peer- under development.
, group utility indexes and, significantly, In 1997 alone, CMS Energy, along CMS Energy's total return has sub- with its partners:
stantially outperformed the S&P 500.
- Purchased the 2,000 megawatt Loy In fact, CMS Energy is the only major Yang generating plant and coal mine utility to outperform the S&P 500 on from the government ofAustralia's total return during the five-year period. State ofVictoria. At S3.7 billion, it InternationalActivities energy facility in the world.
The growth that CMS Energy has Completed the purchase of the Jorf experienced has been the result of Lasfar electric generating plant in aggressive international m. vestments.
Morocco, and began a major expan-Assets of our international busin esses
. sion which will double its size to have grown to about S3.5 billion of
. 1,360 megawatts.
the company's S10 billion total.
. Advanced new generating plants in CMS Energy now has operatmg assets
. Argentina, India and Jamaica from in 17 countries on five continents, with
. . . construction into operation, sigmficant additional development Began construction of the S750 mil-activities m these and several addi-
. lion Atacama pipeline and power tional countnes.
project that willlink Argentina CMS Energy has become one of the -
and Chile, world's leading energy infrastructure Acquired two electric distribution companies, with the largest indepen- .
systems in Brazil, serving over dent power plants on three continents, 600,000 customers.
pipeline projects on four continents
The company is helping bring competition >
to the utility industry in a manner that protects the interests of both customers andshareholders.
Domestic Utility Operations & Deregulation
- Was awarded the concession to in the United States, our Consumers own and operate a major Turkish electric system. Energy electric and natural gas utilities And already in early 1998, continued to perform at record levels.
CMS Energy: At the electric utility, a number of
- Has amounced a major project in important production milestones, includ-Ghana to partner with the govern. ing the second-best fossil plant ment to privatize and expand a availability and highest-ever nuclear pro-300 megawatt power plant currently duction, were achieved along with a new under construction, as well as con. high for electric service installations. At struct an associated pipeline, the same time, electric and gas utility a lias agreed with its partners to employees turned in the best safety construct, beginning this year, a record in the history of the company, 5300 million methanol project in again winning the National Safety Equatorial Guinea to utilize existing Council first-place award.
natural gas that would otherwise be The Big Rock nuclear plant was suc-flared to the environment. cessfully retired in August after 35
- Has become a 50 percent partner in years as a pioneer in America's nuclear a second power project (200 mega. industry.The plant was the nation's first commercial boiling water reactor watts) now under construction and, at retirement, was the longest-in India.
These projects, as well as a number operating nuclear plant in the United of others under development, suggest States. During the next five years, a that 1998 will be another year of decommissioning team will work to remarkable development and growth. restore the plant site to its natural state.
Equally important, however, were the company's efforts to help restruc-ture Michigan's utility industry so that 4
it is fully competitive. Michigan utility 300,000-20 percent-of our customers regulators in 1997 issued a series of will be able to choose their own natural -
very constructive orders that propose gas supplier. Consumers Energy will a framework for phasing in electric continue to deliver the gas through its customer choice over four years. distribution system.
Importantly, the plan protects share-Summary holderinterests by permitting full .
We are proud of our m. dustry leadership recovery of m. vestments in generatmg .
in the United States and around the world, plants and other facilities that might and we are proud of our 10,000 employ-
otherwise be stranded by deregulation.
ees who have produced our success. We Our regulators have shown sound extend our thanks for their innovation and judgment in forging these plans. a Consumers Energy also is support-We are also grateful to our numerous ing a package of electric restructuring customers, partners, host governments legislation that is being considered by and valued suppliers for their support the Michigan Legislature. This legis-and loyalty, lation would complement and codify Finally, we thank our Board of regulators' proposals, and would per- .
Directors and, especially, Lois Lund, manently protect the delicate balance who retired as Director during 1997, for ,
of shareholder and customer interests.
the.ir wise counsel and strong support.
Meanwhile, customer choice for natural gas customers is accelerating.
In December 1997, Michigan regula-tors gave Consumers Energy approval Ars T%t~ 19 to begin one of the country's largest, William T. McCormick Jr.
most far-reaching experiments with Chainnan andChiefExecutive Oficer customer choice. The program will be March 11,1998 phased in over three years. At its peak, 5
Gas Utility Independent Power Production ,
conneen operatino aman seneranno capacity oversuno n man-Atollume ut skallan %t %Irpomutts hidiums ofikdlan Bdiumn of Cuhu feet 44N I.2K2 3M2 74 0
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- Fifth-largest gas distribution company in U.S.
- Fourth-largest U.S. des cloper and operator ofindependent power projects around the world
- 1.5 million gas customers e lias interests in 34 operating plants totaling 7,400
- 130 billion cubic feet of working gas storage, among the gross megaw atts largei,t in the U.S.
- 2,900 gross megawans under des elopment and in construction
- Michigan's largest gas utility in customers and geographic area
- More than 25,000 miles of intrastate pipelines Pros ides natural gas and related energy services to 44 counties Provides project management, des elopment, engineering, in Michigan's Lower peninsula insestment capital, management and operating services for independent power
- Deliscred 420 bilhon cubic feet of gas
- Added five plants to its portfolio e Added nearly 29,000 new customers
- Hegan 700 megawatt expansion of Jorf Lasfar ( Morocco) plant
- Charged lowest gas costs in Michigan
- Hegan construction of 710 megawatt Atacama(Chile) power project
- Launched two major value-added services
- Acquired power plants in Australia and India e implement pilot program that gives customers choice of supphers
- Commercial contracting of plant capacity in Austraha, Argentina and Chile
- Increase gas throughput by extending gas main into fastest-growing regions
- Complete acquisition and start construction in Ghana, Indonesia, Indir., Brazil and Thailand
- Expand value-added sen ices
- Continue improving operating etliciencies
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Electric Utility arv or,anrtus srnrosroes natwo. ,,1 naaman s.,,n wiums a thalan g 37 h 2 446 IM CMS Energyprovides a complete range lllIll u u er musinese etscairriou u a er ofinternationalenergy expertise, ""'*h'8"""""*""*"""r*"""
= 1.6 milhon electric customers including:
- About 7,200 megawatts of gross generating capacity a About 67,000 miles of transmission and
- Distribution of electricity and natural di>tribution lines gas to the homes andbusinesses of eraaatrs 4 million Customers.
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m Michigan's Lower Peninsula e Building and operating electric gener-ating plants and transmission lines, ,,,, ,,,,,,,,, ,,,,,,,,,,
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- Exploration, development andproduc- . p,,i,,a,, ,uc ,,,, p,,,, ,,, p,,auc,,,, ,,,,a tion of oil and natural gas, including
- Retired Ilig Rock, the nation's longest-operatmg nuclear plant (barrels of oil equivalent) 11.4 million ,,,, ,,,,,,,
barrelsproduction and 152 million rinalize and implement electric industry restructuring that gis es customers choice of suppliers barre /S of reserves. . Implement generating cost impros ements
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- Experience with all fuel types: coal, oil, natural gas, hydroelectric, nuclear and waste.
- Complete fuelhandling, including processing, storage and building and Jperatingpipelines, with nearly 30,000 miles of transmission, gather-ing anddistribution pipelines.
- Providing energy marketing, services and trading, including sales of 243 bil-lion cubic feetofnaturalgas and 900,000 megawatt-hours of electricity.
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ENERGY SUPPLY Substantialgrowth in the energy supply sectorhas propelled the assets of ourinternationalbusi-nesses to more than one-third of CMS Energy's total. rasitna s ceuw van eoretic pneratsry pbnt and CoalmirW Wa5 Vielargest hWimndrntynwrproyn1 nnarummtustory n, MS Energy solidified its Several recently completed inntm*s as ement e global energy leadership plants also began operations. in 1997.The company expanded The 128 megawatt YPF La Plata
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mye a stravsa ws, its net interest in independent plant, southeast of Buenos generating capacity by 110 per- Aires, supplies two oil refiner-cent and started construction of ies, including Argentina's one of the largest new pipeline largest, and sells power to the projects in the world. country's spot market. CMS A CMS-led group acquired also has ownership interests in the 2,000 megawatt Loy Yang the 60 megawatt Jamaica power power plant and coal mine in plant and the 235 megawatt southeastern Australia. It is GVK Industries plant in India. Australia's lowest-cost generating The additional generating facility and its largest producing capacity helped push operating coal mine. income for the independent The company and its partner power business to $96 million in also acquired the 660 megawatt 1997, an increase of 43 percent Jorf Lasfar facility, the first priva- over the previous year. tized power plant in Morocco. CMS Energy's utility plants, Construction already has started all located in the United States, to double the plant's size to performed at an outstanding 1,360 megawatts. level in 1997. Baseload fossil When that expansion is com- plants had an availability rate of pleted, Jorf Lasfar will stand nearly 87 percent, the second-alongside Loy Yang in Australia highest in their history.The and the Midland Copeneration Palisades nuclear plant gener-Venture in the U.S., as the largest ated f,800 gigawatt-hours of independent power plants on electricity,its highest produc-their three continents. tion eve; by over 9 percent. 9
ENERGY DISTRIBUTION ConsumersEnergyhas worked ? hard to positionitself for ; competition from electricity : and naturalgas suppliers. c
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a froits to deregulate the remain regulated. and would EU.S. electric utility indus-continue to be provided by AltialgtlDe stipinnes of , . eectray ano returarp, try took an important leap existing utih, ties, including are twormnp oereguorea forward in 1997, when several Consumers Energy.The plan ,
#* * * * "o'#5 states decided to open their mar- contains a critical provision for Ull!!ff bustles $ Wtf CollVilUe kets to competition. Beginning shareholders. It permits full rivrgy .m continue ro this year, consumers in recovery of past investments Fo* #5'So'" $ $ approved by the Commission in California, Pennsylvania and -
31 mdhon Custonwis Ne.v llampshire will be able to power plants and power supply choose their electricity supplier. contracts that might be stranded Recognizing the inevitability because of deregulation. of customer choice, Consumers Consumers Energy also is Energy has been in the forefront supporting competition-related of proceedings to design a bills that are being considered by competitive system in Michigan the Michigan Legislature.The that balances shareholder and bills would complement and customer interests. Many of our codify the regulatory proposals. ideas are included in a series of Meanwhile, Consumers Gas very constructive Michigan is launching one of the country's Public Ser ice Commission orders largest pilot programs that gives issued in the last nine months. natural gas customers a choice The Commission plan pro- of suppliers. The Commission- ,, vides for a four-year transition approved test will phase in period beginning in 1998. At customer choice over three ,
- the end of this period, all cus- years, ultimately giving 20 per-tomers would be able to choose cent ofour customers the their electricity supplier, freedom to select their natural Delivery of the power would gas supplier. Consumers Energy will continue to deliver gas and charge a transport fee.
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c~ne,u-g, , erpaynes wwudbng. s s _t gruehng hours to awcwy w restore eiecVg servce * ' InterrLptedby 8 mBfor Metugan te storm '_ . While competition will bring during the heating season were maintenance expenses for both dramatic changes, we have been warmer than normal, which gas and electric customers to preparing for them for several reduced gas deliveries to 420 fourth-lowest in the nation, years, so we face the future with billion cubic feet,6 percent The company also is applying confidence. As 1997 demon- below 1996 levels. its expertise to non-traditional strates, Consumers Energy is We continued to increase opportunities. For example, we quickly adapting to the new our customer base during the have contracted with three market with an innovative blend year. We added 29,000 new nat- Michigan cities to read their of core utility services and non- ural gas customers, along the water meters, and we are provid-traditional products. way celebrating the milestone ing billing services fer one of That performance pushed addition of our 1.5 millionth the cities.The company has 1997 operating income for the customer. We also added 23,000 contracted to read 15,000 gas gas and electric utility busi- new electric customers. meters of Michigan Consolidated nesses to $585 million, a To keep pace with this Gas Co. in Greenville. growth, we expanded our gas We also have reached state-
"' wide site-leasing agreements system with 500 miles of new y gas main in 1997. We plan to with two telecommunications install another 530 miles in 1998. firms.The firms provide per-In the process, we improved our sonal communications services 1-Empbrees at te Freedom (Ungessor Statoon and gas main unit cost by 5 percent.
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moving e nomes emesses customer calls during a severe ,,,ceaea,,nyest,,e n ,n,yy,m ,mty,,tga, cy, ton, 3 percent increase over 1996. ice storm. Although the storm The earnings are particularly held southern Michigan captive impressive becarse of the nega- in a sheet ofice for days, down-tive efTect weather had on sales ing trees and power lines and during 1997. Temperatures stranding 270,000 customers from April through October- without electricity, employees w hich includes Michigan's nor- had customers re:onnected mally heavy air conditioning within six days. Despite the dif-season - averaged the coolest ficult working conditions, utility since 1864. Still, electric sales employees had the best safety increased two percent, to a record in their history. record 38 billion kilowatt- Employee innovation hours. Conversely, temperatures helped push 1997 operating and 14
For the 5th straight year - and the 11th in the last 13 - the Nationai Safety Councii named Consumers Energy the safest utility of watch oma distribution its sizein the UnitedStates, twtmvh thatsenes273luO Argentire custoners. based upon Consumers the countries in which it operates,
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unit cost by 19 percent. interests in two electric distribu-or string fiber optic cable on com- At the beginning of 1997, tion companies in Brazil.The pany facilities or rights-of-way. CMS introduced an economic operations have a combined CMS Energy had similar suc- development program to help 634,000 customers and 2,310 cess in 1997 with international Entre Rios retain and expand gigawatt-hours of sales.They energy distribution. existing industry, and attract operate in the states of Sergipe, Empresa Distribuidora de new business to the province. Minas Gerais and Rio de Janeiro. Electricidad de Entre Rios, S.A. In the first year, the program has CMS also is part of a consor. (EDEERSA), an electric distri- developed 40 business opportu- tium exclusively negotiating to bution company in the province nities, expected to generate acquire and operate Turkey's of Entre Rios Argentina, com- $20 million of new investment Bursa-Yalova electric distribu-pleted its first full year under in Entre Rios and create or tion system. It distributes 3.3 our ownership with impressive retain 500 jobs. billion kilowatt-hours annually improvements. CMS acquired The Entre Rios program is to 700,000 customers near the company in May of 1996, as based on a highly successful Bursa, about 60 miles south part ofArgentina's program to plan developed by Consumers ofIstanbul. privatize the government-owned Energy to help propel Michigan's energy industry. growth. The plan has proven its \.(( ~ EDEERSA increased sales to value to Michigan for years, . E" M'- 1,039 gigawatt-hours in 1997, making it a key partner with the
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mas * :. serving 223,000 customers in state in developing newjobs. In MNOoN y the province that is located 62 1997, that program helped fx '~a u h . miles northeast of Buenos Aires. Its ratio of customers served per Michigan develop S247 million in new or expanded business, ["i ~." iG' employee dramatically improved from 340 to 435 customers per and created more than 1,600 ghw , newjobs. That growth also will . . employee. generate 55.7 million annually - - In 1997, EDEERSA: in incremental electricity and '
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