Company: WELPM
Filing Date: 2025-10-31
Form Type: 10-Q
Source: 0000107815-25-000207
Chunk: 72

Company: WISCONSIN ELECTRIC POWER CO
Filing Date: 2025-10-31
Form: 10-Q
Item: Part I, Item 1
Chunk 72
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 CRL (landfill leachate). Although our coal-fueled facilities were constructed with advanced wastewater treatment technologies that meet many of the discharge limits established by the 2015 rule, facility modifications were still necessary at OCPP and ERGS to meet all of the 2015 ELG requirements and the additional ones established by the 2020 ELG rule. Compliance costs associated with the 2015 and 2020 ELG rules required $97 million in capital investment. The 2024 Supplemental ELG rule established zero discharge requirements for BATW, FGD, and CRL wastewaters at coal-fueled units with no planned retirement date. The Supplemental ELG Rule also kept one existing and created one new "permanent cessation of coal" subcategory. Those electing to cease coal combustion by either retiring or repowering a unit by December 31, 2028 or December 31, 2034 can limit ELG-related capital investments to what was required by either the 2015 or the 2020 ELG Rule, respectively. For units where cessation of coal is planned to occur no later than December 31, 2034, facility owners must complete all 2020 ELG rule required capital investments by December 31, 2025. All of our coal-fueled units fully meet the 2020 ELG rule requirements. Based on current electrical generation resource planning, we plan to file a NOPP by December 31, 2025 to opt into the "cessation of coal by December 31, 2034" subcategory for the ERGS coal-fired facility. A NOPP also may be filed for the OCPP, Port Washington Generating Station, and VAPP facilities because this ELG rule option will allow the company to qualify for more reasonable requirements to address the CRL provisions at our landfills that served these former coal-fired facilities. 

09/30/2025 Form 10-Q24Wisconsin Electric Power Company

The final Supplemental ELG Rule allows owners of coal-fired units who opted into a cessation of coal subcategory to operate beyond the end of 2028 or 2034, as allowed by either the 2015 or the 2020 ELG Rule, respectively, if needed for reliability concerns (i.e., energy emergencies and reliability must run agreements) as determined by the United States Department of Energy, a public utility commission, or independent system operator.In November 2024, Edison Electric Institute, on behalf of its members, submitted