Wisconsin PSC Approves Big Gas-Fired Power Plant Near Milwaukee

The Public Service Commission (PSC) of Wisconsin approved the We Energies plan to build a $1.2 billion gas-fired power plant at its Oak Creek Power Plant location (Oak Creek is a suburb of Milwaukee). Plans call for converting the facility from a coal-fired power plant to a natural gas plant that will generate 1,100 megawatts (MW) of electricity on demand (a “peaker” facility). The aim is to start the gas turbines when the sun doesn’t shine and the wind doesn’t blow. The PSC also approved a much smaller We Energies peaker plant in the Kenosha County town of Paris.

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