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Generation and Delivery

How electricity is made at a power plant

How electricity gets to your school or home

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Generating Facilities
The We Energies electric generating system includes 26 generating faclilities with a capacity of about 6,000 megawatts, located throughout Wisconsin and the Upper Peninsula of Michigan.

Fossil Fuels

Coal More than half of our total electric-generating capacity comes from our six coal-fueled power plants. About 25,000 tons of coal is used each day to meet our customer's electricity demand.


Valley Power Plant		Milwaukee County Power Plant

Natural Gas Natural gas, oil and coal account for about 88 percent of U.S. energy consumption. In 2008, 9.1 percent of We Energies electric energy mix will come from natural gas.


Concord Generating System		Paris Generating Station

Renewable Energy We Energies has the capacity to generate or purchase about 320 megawatts of our electricity supply from the renewable energy sources of biomass, hydroelectric and wind.
Wind		Water


Wind Turbines		Kingsford Hydroelectric Plant

Solar We Energies donated a 10-kilowatt photovoltaic solar power system to the Schlitz Audubon Nature Center, which supplies 10 to 20 percent of the building’s electricity.


Schlitz Audubon Nature Center		Installation of Photovoltaic System

Electrical and Natural Gas Equipment



Substation insulators	Transmission tower	Pad mounted transformer	Polymeric rubber insulator that stops electricity from flowing	Porcelain insulator that stops electricity from flowing


Aluminum conductor that carries 345,000 volts of electricity