Company: WELPM
Filing Date: 2025-10-31
Form Type: 10-Q
Source: 0000107815-25-000207
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Company: WISCONSIN ELECTRIC POWER CO
Filing Date: 2025-10-31
Form: 10-Q
Item: Part I, Item 1
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EC Energy Group joined is planning to help build and grow EV charging corridors, enabling the general public to safely and efficiently charge their vehicles.

WEC Energy Group also continues to focus on methane emission reductions by improving and upgrading its natural gas distribution system, and using RNG throughout its natural gas utility systems. In 2022, we received approval from the PSCW for an RNG pilot. The RNG supplied is expected to directly replace higher-emission methane from natural gas that would have entered our pipes. In light of WEC Energy Group's progress, significant uncertainty surrounding the market for RTCs, and WEC Energy Group's desire to focus on long-term GHG emissions-reduction across the enterprise, in the third quarter of 2025, WEC Energy Group made a decision to reassess its previous, standalone goal related to methane emissions from natural gas distribution.

In December 2023, WEC Energy Group started a pilot program with the Electric Power Research Institute and CMBlu Energy, a Germany-based designer and manufacturer, to test a new form of long-duration energy storage on the U.S. electric grid at our VAPP. The program will test battery system performance, including the ability to store and discharge energy for up to twice as long as the typical lithium-ion batteries in use today. WEC Energy Group expects the pilot activities to continue into 2026.

Reliability

We have made significant reliability-related investments in recent years, and in accordance with the WEC Energy Group capital plan, expect to continue strengthening and modernizing our generation fleet, as well as our electric and natural gas distribution networks to further improve reliability.

Below are a few examples of reliability projects that are proposed, currently underway, or recently completed.

•The PSCW approved our request to construct an LNG facility with a storage capacity of two Bcf, which will be located on the OCPP site. In addition, the construction of additional LNG facilities in Wisconsin has been proposed as part of WEC Energy Group's capital plan, which includes us. The facilities would provide another approximately four Bcf of natural gas supply (of which our portion is expected to be approximately two Bcf) and are expected to reduce the likelihood of constraints on our natural gas distribution system during the highest demand days of winter.

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•The WEC Energy Group capital plan includes $2.2 billion of investments from 2026 to 2030 in battery energy storage systems, which are intended to capture excess power and release