Company: WELPM
Filing Date: 2025-03-27
Form Type: DEF 14C
Source: 0000107815-25-000155
Chunk: 4

Company: WISCONSIN ELECTRIC POWER CO
Filing Date: 2025-03-27
Form: DEF 14C
Chunk 4
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 to the Board in order to contribute to the collective diversity of the Board. As part of its process, in connection with the nomination of new directors to the Board, the Corporate Governance Committee considers several factors to ensure the entire Board collectively embraces a wide variety of characteristics, including professional background, experience, skills, and knowledge, as well as the criteria listed above. Each candidate will generally exhibit different and varying degrees of these characteristics.

#### Nominees for Election to the Board of Directors
Biographical information regarding each nominee is shown below. Ages are as of December 31, 2024. All nominees are officers of the Company and/or WEC Energy Group and are not independent.

#### Michael W. Hooper.

#### Age 51.
• Wisconsin Electric Power Company – President-Wisconsin Utilities since April 2024

• Director of Wisconsin Electric Power Company since April 2024

• NiSource, Inc. - Senior Vice President and President and Chief Operating Officer, NIPSCO from May 2020 to March 2024. Senior Vice President, Regulatory, Legislative Affairs and Strategy from 2018 to 2020. NiSource is a public utility holding company whose operating subsidiaries provide natural gas and electric service to customers across Indiana, Kentucky, Maryland, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Virginia.

• Mr. Hooper also serves as an executive officer and/or director of other major subsidiaries of WEC Energy Group.

Mr. Hooper has primary responsibility for the Electric and Gas Distribution business, Customer Service, Power Generation, and Major Projects for WE and its affiliated utilities, Wisconsin Gas LLC and Wisconsin Public Service. Based upon his prior leadership experience of another public electric and gas utility, as well as his experience with regulatory and legislative affairs, the Board concluded that Mr. Hooper should serve as a director of the Company.

#### Kyle A. Hoops.

#### Age 62.
• WEC Energy Group – Senior Vice President, Power Generation since January 2024.

• Wisconsin Electric Power Company – Vice President, Power Generation 2021 to 2023.

• Wisconsin Public Service Corporation – Director, Power Generation Support 2015 to 2021.

• Mr. Hoops also serves as an executive officer and/or director of other major subsidiaries of WEC Energy Group.

Mr. Hoops has nearly 40 years of experience in utility operation and power generation, including responsibility for power generation at the Company and Wisconsin Public Service Corporation (WPS), overseeing the companies’ combined generation fleet, which includes coal, natural gas, biomass, wind,