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      Pursuant to Rule 416(a) under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the &#8220;1933
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      additional shares that may be offered and issued to prevent dilution resulting
      from stock splits, stock dividends or similar transactions as provided in the
      Plan. </font></div>
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      post-effective amendment hereto which indicates that all securities offered
      hereby have been sold or which deregisters all such securities then remaining
      unsold, shall also be deemed to be incorporated by reference into this
      registration statement and to be a part hereof from their respective dates
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      modified or superseded to the extent that a statement contained in a
      subsequently filed document which is, or is deemed to be, incorporated by
      reference herein modifies or supersedes such statement. Any statement so
      modified or superseded shall not be deemed, except as so modified or superseded,
      to constitute a part of this registration statement. Any statement contained
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      be deemed to be modified or superseded for purposes of this registration
      statement to the extent that a statement contained in any other subsequently
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      hereunder is filed as Exhibit 5 hereto, is an employee of the Registrant and
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      and officers, their heirs, executors and administrators are entitled to
      indemnification to the extent and under the circumstances permitted by
      Section&#160;561, 562 and 563 of the Michigan Business Corporation Act (&#8220;MBCA&#8221;)
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      bylaws provide that it shall indemnify any person who was or is a party or
      is
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      suit or proceeding, whether civil, criminal, administrative or investigative
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      whether formal or informal (other than an action by or in the right of the
      Registrant), including any appeals, by reason of the fact that he or she is
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      fiduciary or agent of another foreign or domestic corporation, partnership,
      limited liability company, joint venture, trust or other enterprise, including
      service with respect to employee benefit plans or public service or charitable
      organizations, against expenses (including attorneys&#8217; fees), judgments,
      penalties, fines, excise taxes and amounts paid in settlement actually and
      reasonably incurred by him or her in connection with such action, suit or
      proceeding if he or she acted in good faith and in a manner he or she reasonably
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      provide that the Registrant shall indemnify any person who was or is a party
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      action or suit by or in the right of the Registrant to procure a judgment in
      the
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      officer of ours, or is or was serving at the Registrant&#8217;s request as a director,
      officer, partner, trustee, employee or agent of another foreign or domestic
      corporation, partnership, joint venture, trust or other enterprise, whether
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      profit or not, against expenses (including attorneys&#8217; fees) and amounts paid in
      settlement actually and reasonably incurred by him or her in connection with
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      reasonably believed to be in or not opposed to the Registrant&#8217;s or its
      shareholders&#8217; best interests and except that no indemnification shall be made in
      respect of any claim, issue or matter as to which such person has been found
      liable to the Registrant unless to the extent that the court in which such
      action or suit was brought shall determine upon application that, despite the
      adjudication of liability but in view of all relevant circumstances of the
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      of the Registration Statement (or the most recent post-effective amendment
      thereof) which, individually or in the aggregate, represent a fundamental change
      in the information set forth in the Registration Statement. Notwithstanding
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      foregoing, any increase or decrease in volume of securities offered (if the
      total dollar value of securities offered would not exceed that which was
      registered) and any deviation from the low or high end of the estimated maximum
      offering range may be reflected in the form of prospectus filed with the
      Commission pursuant to Rule 424(b) if, in the aggregate, the changes in volume
      and price represent no more than a 20% change in the maximum aggregate offering
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      is on Form S-3, Form S-8 or Form F-3 and the information required to be included
      in a post-effective amendment by those paragraphs is contained in periodic
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      by reference in the registration statement shall be deemed to be a new
      registration statement relating to the securities offered therein, and the
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      to directors, officers and controlling persons of the Registrant pursuant to
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      opinion of the Commission such indemnification is against public policy as
      expressed in the 1933 Act and is, therefore, unenforceable. In the event that
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      the Registrant of expenses incurred or paid by a director, officer or
      controlling person of the Registrant, in the successful defense of any action,
      suit or proceeding) is asserted by such director, officer or controlling person
      in connection with the securities being registered, the Registrant will, unless
      in the opinion of its counsel the matter has been settled by controlling
      precedent, submit to a court of appropriate jurisdiction the question of whether
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      it has reasonable grounds to believe that it meets all of the requirements
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      on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in the City of
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      Prendeville, and each of them acting alone, as his attorneys-in-fact and agents,
      each with full power of substitution and resubstitution, for him and in his
      name, place and stead, in any and all capacities, to sign any and all
      amendments, including post-effective amendments, or supplements to this
      Registration Statement on Form S-8, and to file the same, with all exhibits
      thereto and other documents (including any necessary amendments thereof) in
      connection therewith, with the Commission granting unto said attorneys-in-fact
      and agents, and each of them acting alone, full power and authority to do and
      perform each and every act and thing requisite and necessary to be done, as
      fully to all intents and purposes as he might or could do in person, hereby
      ratifying and confirming all that each of said attorneys-in-fact and agents
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                statement).</em></font></div>
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Form S-8 - Directors Deferred
As
      filed
      with the Securities and Exchange Commission on November 7
,
      2005
Registration
      No. 333-______
UNITED
      STATES
SECURITIES
      AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington,
      D.C. 20549
FORM
      S-8
REGISTRATION
      STATEMENT UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933
SEMCO
                Energy, Inc.
(Exact
                name of registrant as specified in its charter)
Michigan
(State
                or other jurisdiction of
incorporation
                or organization)
38-2144267
(I.R.S.
                Employer
Identification
                No.)
1411
                Third Street, Suite A
Port
                Huron, Michigan
(Address
                of Principal Executive Offices)
48060
(Zip
                Code)
SEMCO
      Energy, Inc.
Deferred
      Compensation
and
Stock
      Purchase Plan
for
      Non-Employee Directors
(Full
      title of the plan)
Peter
      F. Clark
Senior
      Vice President and General Counsel
SEMCO
      Energy, Inc.
2301
      West Big Beaver Road, Suite 212
Troy,
      Michigan 48084
(Name
      and address of agent for service)
(248)
      458-6152
(Telephone
      number, including area code, of agent for service)
CALCULATION
                OF REGISTRATION FEE
Title
                of
securities
                to be registered
Amount
                to be registered
(1)
Proposed
                maximum offering price per share
(2)
Proposed
maximum
                aggregate offering price
(2)
Amount
                of
registration
                fee
Common
                Stock, $1.00 par value
240,171
$5.83
$1,400,196.90
$164.80
(1)
      Pursuant to Rule 416(a) under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the "1933
      Act"), this Registration Statement also covers an indeterminate number of
      additional shares that may be offered and issued to prevent dilution resulting
      from stock splits, stock dividends or similar transactions as provided in the
      Plan.
(2)
      Pursuant to Rule 457(h)(1) under the 1933 Act, the offering price is estimated
      solely for the purpose of calculating the registration fee and is based on
      the
      average of the high and low sales prices of the Registrant's Common Stock on
      November 1, 2005, as reported on the New York Stock Exchange.
Part
      I
INFORMATION
      REQUIRED IN THE SECTION 10(a) PROSEPECTUS
Item
      1.
Plan
      Information.*
Item
      2.
Registrant
      Information and Employee Plan Annual Information.*
*
The
                information required by Part I to be contained in the Section 10(a)
                prospectus is omitted from this Registration Statement in accordance
                with
                the Note to Part I of Form S-8 and Rule
                428.
Part
      II
INFORMATION
      REQUIRED IN THE REGISTRATION STATEMENT
Item
      3.
Incorporation
      of Documents by Reference.
SEMCO
      Energy, Inc. (the "Registrant") hereby incorporates by reference into this
      Registration Statement the following documents:
(a)
The
                Registrant's Annual Report on Form 10-K and Form 10-K/A for the fiscal
                year ended December 31, 2004, as filed with the Securities and Exchange
                Commission (the "Commission") on March 8, 2005 and May 10, 2005,
                respectively;
(b)
The
                Registrant's Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q for the quarters ended
                March 31, 2005, June 30, 2005 and September 30,
                2005, filed
                on May 10, 2005, August 3, 2005 and November 7
,
                2005, respectively;
(c)
The
                Registrant's Current Reports on Form 8-K, as filed with the Commission on
                January 3, 2005, January 25, 2005, February 18,
                2005,
                March 9, 2005, March 10, 2005, March 17, 2005,
                March 23, 2005, March 30, 2005, April 1, 2005,
                April 21, 2005, May 9, 2005, June 21, 2005,
                July 1,
                2005, August 3, 2005, August 10, 2005, September 19,
                2005; October 28, 2005 and November 7, 2005; and
(d)
The
                description of the Registrant's Common Stock, $1.00 par value, contained
                in the Registrant's registration statement on Form 8-A12b, as filed with
                the Commission on December 21, 1999 and any amendment or report
                filed
                subsequent thereto for the purpose of updating such description.
All
      documents filed by the Registrant subsequent to the date of this registration
      statement pursuant to Sections 13(a), 13(c), 14 and 15(d) of the Securities
      Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the "1934 Act") and prior to the filing of a
      post-effective amendment hereto which indicates that all securities offered
      hereby have been sold or which deregisters all such securities then remaining
      unsold, shall also be deemed to be incorporated by reference into this
      registration statement and to be a part hereof from their respective dates
      of
      filing.
Any
      statement contained in this registration statement shall be deemed to be
      modified or superseded to the extent that a statement contained in a
      subsequently filed document which is, or is deemed to be, incorporated by
      reference herein modifies or supersedes such statement. Any statement so
      modified or superseded shall not be deemed, except as so modified or superseded,
      to constitute a part of this registration statement. Any statement contained
      in
      a document incorporated or deemed to be incorporated by reference herein shall
      be deemed to be modified or superseded for purposes of this registration
      statement to the extent that a statement contained in any other subsequently
      filed document that is or is deemed to be incorporated by reference herein,
      modifies or supersedes such statement.
Item
      4.
Description
      of Securities
.
Not
      applicable.
Item
      5.
Interests
      of Named Experts and Counsel
.
Mark
      T.
      Prendeville, Esq., whose legal opinion with respect to the securities registered
      hereunder is filed as Exhibit 5 hereto, is an employee of the Registrant and
      participates in other benefit plans established by the Registrant.
Item
      6.
Indemnification
      of Directors and Officers
.
The
      Registrant's bylaws provide that its directors and officers, former directors
      and officers, their heirs, executors and administrators are entitled to
      indemnification to the extent and under the circumstances permitted by
      Section 561, 562 and 563 of the Michigan Business Corporation Act ("MBCA")
      including, where permitted and upon satisfaction of any undertaking required,
      advance of expenses.
The
      Registrant's bylaws contain indemnification provisions concerning third party
      actions as well as actions in the right of the Registrant. The Registrant's
      bylaws provide that it shall indemnify any person who was or is a party or
      is
      threatened to be made a party to any threatened, pending or completed action,
      suit or proceeding, whether civil, criminal, administrative or investigative
      and
      whether formal or informal (other than an action by or in the right of the
      Registrant), including any appeals, by reason of the fact that he or she is
      or
      was a director or officer of The Registrant's, or is or was serving at the
      Registrant's request as a director, officer, member, partner, trustee, employee,
      fiduciary or agent of another foreign or domestic corporation, partnership,
      limited liability company, joint venture, trust or other enterprise, including
      service with respect to employee benefit plans or public service or charitable
      organizations, against expenses (including attorneys' fees), judgments,
      penalties, fines, excise taxes and amounts paid in settlement actually and
      reasonably incurred by him or her in connection with such action, suit or
      proceeding if he or she acted in good faith and in a manner he or she reasonably
      believed to be in or not opposed to the Registrant's or its shareholders' best
      interests, and with respect to any criminal action or proceeding, had no
      reasonable cause to believe his or her conduct was unlawful.
With
      respect to derivative actions, the bylaws, through the reference to the MBCA,
      provide that the Registrant shall indemnify any person who was or is a party
      to
      or is threatened to be made a party to any threatened, pending or completed
      action or suit by or in the right of the Registrant to procure a judgment in
      the
      Registrant's favor by reason of the fact that he or she is or was a director or
      officer of ours, or is or was serving at the Registrant's request as a director,
      officer, partner, trustee, employee or agent of another foreign or domestic
      corporation, partnership, joint venture, trust or other enterprise, whether
      for
      profit or not, against expenses (including attorneys' fees) and amounts paid in
      settlement actually and reasonably incurred by him or her in connection with
      the
      action or suit, if he or she acted in good faith and in a manner he or she
      reasonably believed to be in or not opposed to the Registrant's or its
      shareholders' best interests and except that no indemnification shall be made in
      respect of any claim, issue or matter as to which such person has been found
      liable to the Registrant unless to the extent that the court in which such
      action or suit was brought shall determine upon application that, despite the
      adjudication of liability but in view of all relevant circumstances of the
      case,
      such person is fairly and reasonably entitled to indemnity for such expenses,
      but such indemnification is limited to reasonable expenses incurred.
2
The
      Registrant has in effect a directors' and officers' liability insurance policy
      that provides coverage for the Registrant and its directors and officers. Under
      this policy, the insurer agrees to pay, subject to certain exclusions and
      deductibles, for any claim made against a director or officer of the Registrant
      for a wrongful act by the director or officer, but only if and to the extent
      the
      director or officer becomes legally obligated to pay the claim.
Item
      7.
Exemption
      from Registration Claimed
.
Not
      applicable.
Item
      8.
Exhibits
.
An
      Exhibit Index appears at page 7 hereof.
Item
      9.
Undertakings
.
The
      undersigned Registrant hereby undertakes:
(1)
To
      file,
      during any period in which offers or sales are being made, a post-effective
      amendment to this Registration Statement:
(i)
      to
      include any prospectus required by Section 10(a)(3) of the 1933 Act;
(ii)
      to
      reflect in the prospectus any facts or events arising after the effective date
      of the Registration Statement (or the most recent post-effective amendment
      thereof) which, individually or in the aggregate, represent a fundamental change
      in the information set forth in the Registration Statement. Notwithstanding
      the
      foregoing, any increase or decrease in volume of securities offered (if the
      total dollar value of securities offered would not exceed that which was
      registered) and any deviation from the low or high end of the estimated maximum
      offering range may be reflected in the form of prospectus filed with the
      Commission pursuant to Rule 424(b) if, in the aggregate, the changes in volume
      and price represent no more than a 20% change in the maximum aggregate offering
      price set forth in the "Calculation of Registration Fee" table in the effective
      registration statement;
(iii)
      to
      include any material information with respect to the plan of distribution not
      previously disclosed in the Registration Statement or any material change to
      such information in the Registration Statement;
Provided,
      however
,
      that
      paragraphs (a)(1)(i) and (a)(1)(ii) do not apply if the Registration Statement
      is on Form S-3, Form S-8 or Form F-3 and the information required to be included
      in a post-effective amendment by those paragraphs is contained in periodic
      reports filed with or furnished to the Commission by the Registrant pursuant
      to
      Section 13 or Section 15(d) of the of 1934 Act that are incorporated by
      reference in the registration statement.
(2)
That,
      for
      the purpose of determining any liability under the 1933 Act, each such
      post-effective amendment shall be deemed to be a new registration statement
      relating to the securities offered therein, and the offering of such securities
      at that time shall be deemed to be the initial bona fide offering thereof.
3
(3)
To
      remove
      from registration by means of a post-effective amendment any of the securities
      being registered which remain unsold at the termination of the
      offering.
The
      undersigned Registrant hereby undertakes that, for purposes of determining
      any
      liability under the 1933 Act, each filing of the Registrant's annual report
      pursuant to Section 13(a) or Section 15(d) of the 1934 Act that is incorporated
      by reference in the registration statement shall be deemed to be a new
      registration statement relating to the securities offered therein, and the
      offering of such securities at that time shall be deemed to be the initial
      bona
      fide offering thereof.
Insofar
      as indemnification for liabilities arising under the 1933 Act may be permitted
      to directors, officers and controlling persons of the Registrant pursuant to
      the
      foregoing provisions, or otherwise, the Registrant has been advised that in
      the
      opinion of the Commission such indemnification is against public policy as
      expressed in the 1933 Act and is, therefore, unenforceable. In the event that
      a
      claim for indemnification against such liabilities (other than the payment
      by
      the Registrant of expenses incurred or paid by a director, officer or
      controlling person of the Registrant, in the successful defense of any action,
      suit or proceeding) is asserted by such director, officer or controlling person
      in connection with the securities being registered, the Registrant will, unless
      in the opinion of its counsel the matter has been settled by controlling
      precedent, submit to a court of appropriate jurisdiction the question of whether
      or not such indemnification by it is against public policy as expressed in
      the
      1933 Act and will be governed by the final adjudication of such
      issue.
4
SIGNATURES
Pursuant
      to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, the Registrant certifies
      that
      it has reasonable grounds to believe that it meets all of the requirements
      for
      filing on Form S-8 and has duly caused this Registration Statement to be signed
      on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in the City of
      Troy, State of Michigan, on November 7
,
      2005.
SEMCO
                  Energy, Inc.
(Registrant)
By:
/s/ Michael
                V. Palmeri
Michael
                  V. Palmeri
Senior
                  Vice President, Chief Financial Officer and
                  Treasurer
POWERS
      OF
      ATTORNEY
AND
SIGNATURES
KNOW
      ALL
      MEN BY THESE PRESENTS, that each person whose signature appears below hereby
      constitutes and appoints Michael V. Palmeri, Sherry L. Abbott and Mark T.
      Prendeville, and each of them acting alone, as his attorneys-in-fact and agents,
      each with full power of substitution and resubstitution, for him and in his
      name, place and stead, in any and all capacities, to sign any and all
      amendments, including post-effective amendments, or supplements to this
      Registration Statement on Form S-8, and to file the same, with all exhibits
      thereto and other documents (including any necessary amendments thereof) in
      connection therewith, with the Commission granting unto said attorneys-in-fact
      and agents, and each of them acting alone, full power and authority to do and
      perform each and every act and thing requisite and necessary to be done, as
      fully to all intents and purposes as he might or could do in person, hereby
      ratifying and confirming all that each of said attorneys-in-fact and agents
      or
      any of them, or their substitute or substitutes, may lawfully do or cause to
      done by virtue hereof.
Pursuant
      to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, this Registration Statement
      has been signed by the following persons in the capacities and on the date
      indicated.
Signature
Title
Date
/s/
                    George A. Schreiber, Jr.
President,
                    Chief Executive Officer and Director (Principal Executive
                    Officer)
October
                    18, 2005
George
                    A. Schreiber, Jr.
/s/
                  Michael V. Palmeri
Senior
                      Vice President, Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer (Principal
Financial
                      and Accounting Officer)
November
                    7, 2005
Michael
                    V. Palmeri
/s/
                    John M. Albertine
Chairman
                    and Director
October
                    18, 2005
John
                    M. Albertine
/s/
                    John T. Ferris
Director
October
                    18, 2005
John
                    T. Ferris
5
/s/
                    Harvey I. Klein
Director
October
                    18, 2005
Harvey
                    I. Klein
/s/
                    Paul F. Naughton
Director
October
                    18, 2005
Paul
                    F. Naughton
/s/
                    Edwina Rogers
Director
October
                    18, 2005
Edwina
                    Rogers
/s/
                    Ben A. Stevens
Director
October
                    18, 2005
Ben
                    A. Stevens
/s/
                    Donald W. Thomason
Director
October
                    18, 2005
Donald
                    W. Thomason
/s/
                    John C. van Roden, Jr.
Director
October
                    18, 2005
John
                    C. van Roden, Jr.
6
EXHIBIT
      INDEX
Filed
Exhibit
By
No.
Description
Herewith
Reference
4.1
Articles
                of Incorporation of SEMCO Energy, Inc., as restated June 25,
                1999,
                and amendments thereto through May 28, 2004, including Certificate
                of
                Designation of 6% Series B Convertible Preference Stock filed
                March 19, 2004
(incorporated
                by reference to Exhibit 3.1 to the Registrant's Quarterly Report on Form
                10-Q for the quarter ended June 30, 200, filed August 9,
                2004).
x
4.2
Bylaws
                - last revised June 28, 2005
(incorporated
                by reference to Exhibit 3.2 to the Registrant's Current Report on Form
                8-K, filed July 1, 2005)
.
x
5
Opinion
                of Mark T. Prendeville, Vice President and Deputy General
                Counsel,
                SEMCO Energy, Inc.
x
23.1
Consent
                of Mark T. Prendeville, Vice President and Deputy General
                Counsel,
                SEMCO Energy, Inc.
(contained
                in Exhibit 5 hereto).
x
23.2
Consent
                of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP.
x
24
Powers
                of Attorney
(included
                on the signature page of this registration
                statement).
x
99.1
SEMCO
                Energy, Inc. Deferred Compensation and Stock Purchase Plan for
                Non-Employee Directors
(incorporated
                by reference to Exhibit 10.12 to the Registrant's Annual Report on Form
                10-K for the year ended December 31, 2001, filed March 27,
                2002)
.
x
99.2
First
                Amendment to the SEMCO Energy, Inc. Deferred Compensation and Stock
                Purchase Plan for Non-Employee Directors
(incorporated
                by reference to Exhibit 10.2.1 to the Registrant's Quarterly Report on
                Form 10-Q for the quarter ended September 30, 2005, filed
                November
                7
,
                2005)
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