Environmentalists see the plant's conversion to gas as a victory.
After sitting dormant on the east side of Detroit for 11 years, the Conners Creek power plant roared to life again Tuesday. One of the plant's four boilers began producing electricity just after noon. The plant now uses natural gas instead of coal to generate power. Environmentalists see the plant's conversion to gas as the victory they had sought when they began fighting the plant's reopening more than a year ago. But they say Detroit Edison still has work to do.