Michigan State Attorney General Dana Nessel has sued to vacate the orders, which she characterizes as a “fabricated emergency” and a costly and unjustified federal overreach. In filings to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission in January, Consumers Energy, the majority owner of the plant, reports that as of the end of last year, the emergency orders had cost them —for things like more coal, repairs and staffing — $135 million more then they made from selling the plant’s power. The roughly $600,000-a-day cost could be passed along to ratepayers across the region.