Wisconsin Energy Company Description
While Wisconsin winters freeze Lake Superior, Wisconsin Energy warms interiors. The company's utilities provide electricity to more than 1.1 million customers and natural gas to more than 1 million customers in eastern and northern Wisconsin and Michigan's Upper Peninsula. It also distributes water and steam in Milwaukee. Wisconsin Energy has about 5,100 MW of generating capacity, primarily from coal-fired and nuclear-powered plants. The company's primary utility subsidiaries, Wisconsin Gas and Wisconsin Electric, operate together as We Energies. Other operations include real estate development.
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