Company: WELPM
Filing Date: 2025-03-27
Form Type: DEF 14C
Source: 0000107815-25-000155
Chunk: 116

Company: WISCONSIN ELECTRIC POWER CO
Filing Date: 2025-03-27
Form: DEF 14C
Chunk 116
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 issue any declaratory ruling.

Meanwhile, in June 2024, the party that filed the May 2022 PSCW petition appealed the Dane County Circuit Court’s April 2024 decision to the Wisconsin Court of Appeals. That appeal was in briefing when the PSCW issued its October 2024 order, which left the Court of Appeals with no agency decision to review. Based on this and the fact that the underlying project was no longer going forward, a motion to dismiss the appeal was granted by the Court of Appeals in February 2025. At this time we do not expect any material impact on our business operations.

#### Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act
The CBP issued a WRO in June 2021, applicable to certain silica-based products originating from the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region of China (Xinjiang), such as polysilicon, included in the manufacturing of solar panels. In June 2022, the WRO was superseded by the implementation of the UFLPA. The UFLPA establishes a rebuttable presumption that any imports wholly or partially manufactured in Xinjiang are prohibited from entering the United States. While our suppliers have been able to provide the CBP sufficient documentation to meet WRO compliance requirements, and we expect the same will be true for UFLPA purposes, we cannot currently predict what, if any, long-term impact the UFLPA will have on the overall supply of solar panels into the United States and whether we will experience any further impacts to the timing and cost of our solar projects included in WEC Energy Group's long-term capital plan.

In January 2025, the Department of Homeland Security announced the addition of several more Chinese businesses to the UFLPA, including five solar supply chain providers. We are working to avoid doing business with these companies and remain in compliance with the UFLPA.

#### United States Department of Commerce Complaints
The solar panel industry continues to experience uncertainty resulting from AD and CVD investigations involving four southeast Asian countries including Malaysia, Vietnam, Thailand, and Cambodia.

In August 2023, the DOC issued a final decision regarding an AD/CVD petition filed by a California-based company alleging that Chinese manufacturers were shifting products to the four southeast Asian countries to avoid tariffs required on products imported from China and requesting that the DOC conduct a country-wide inquiry into each country. In its final decision, the DOC determined that circumvention was occurring in each of the four Southeast Asian countries noted above. Duties began to be applied to certain imports