Power the Future Projects

Current projects

Oak Creek Power Plant air quality control

The air quality control project at Oak Creek Power Plant significantly upgrades existing environmental controls on the older units at the plant to further reduce SO₂ and NOx emissions. The new system cuts SO₂ emissions by 80 to 90 percent and NOx emissions by 60 to 70 percent.
Oak Creek air quality control system information

Biomass Energy

In September 2009, we proposed construction of a 50-MW biomass-fueled cogeneration power plant at Domtar Corporation’s Rothschild, Wis., paper mill site.
Biomass energy project information

Pipeline replacement

As part of our ongoing system improvements in 2011, We Energies is replacing about 40 miles of aging natural gas lines with new pipe that is more resistant to corrosion and earth movement.
Pipeline replacement information

Recent projects

Glacier Hills Wind Park

Construction of 90 wind turbines in an area west of Randolph, Wis., began in May 2010.
Glacier Hills Wind Park information

Oak Creek Power Plant expansion

The Oak Creek Power Plant expansion includes construction of two, 615-megawatt coal-fueled generating units. The emission-control technology used in the expansion makes the new units at Oak Creek the cleanest coal-fueled units in the United States.
Oak Creek Power Plant expansion information
DNR Chapter 30 permit for the Oak Creek project

Port Washington Generating Station

The Port Washington Generating Station consists of two, 545-megawatt high-efficiency natural gas-fired units, which went into operation in 2005 and 2008.
Port Washington Generating Station information

Blue Sky Green Field Wind Energy Center

In May 2008, the Blue Sky Green Field Wind Energy Center began operating 88 wind turbines in the towns of Marshfield and Calumet in northeast Fond du Lac County. The site is designed to generate 145 megawatts of electricity and is capable of powering more than 36,000 residential homes.
Blue Sky Green Field Wind Energy Center information

Pleasant Prairie Power Plant

• Carbon capture. In 2009, Pleasant Prairie Power Plant demonstrated an innovative chilled ammonia scrubber technology to capture carbon dioxide emissions from a portion of flue gas from one of the plant’s boilers. This was a first step in developing a commercial-scale technology to capture carbon dioxide emissions from existing coal-fueled power plants. The pilot project demonstrated 90 percent capture of CO₂, confirming predicted performance of the system at an operating power plant and achieving key research metrics around hours of operation, ammonia release, carbon dioxide removal levels and purity. Phase two of the research is taking place at an American Electric Power plant in West Virginia.
  Go to Electric Power Research Institute carbon capture information
• Air quality control. As part of our commitment to upgrade environmental performance, a new air quality control system at Pleasant Prairie Power Plant was completed in 2007. A selective catalytic reduction system was put in place to reduce emissions of NOx, and a flue gas desulfurization system was constructed to reduce SO₂.
  Pleasant Prairie Power Plant air quality control information

Presque Isle Power Plant mercury removal

A mercury removal demonstration project was installed at the Presque Isle plant in 2006. It reduced mercury emissions by 70 to 90 percent using the Electric Power Research Institute’s TOXECON process. The process uses a fabric filter in conjunction with sorbent injection to remove mercury and other emissions downstream of the plant’s existing particulate control device. This mercury removal project is one of the largest of its type currently treating flue gas from Western sub-bituminous coal-fired units of at least 270 megawatts.