We Energies
231 W. Michigan St, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States

We provide electric service to customers in portions of Wisconsin and Michigan’s Upper Peninsula. We also serve natural gas customers in Wisconsin and steam customers in downtown Milwaukee.

Key facts

We Energies is the trade name of Wisconsin Electric Power Co. and Wisconsin Gas LLC, utility subsidiaries of WEC Energy Group.

Customers/accounts as of February 2015

• Total accounts: 2,240,640
• Electric accounts: 1,148,805
• Natural gas accounts: 1,091,412
• Steam accounts: 423
• Wisconsin customers: 2,212,163
• Michigan customers: 28,477
• Residential accounts: 2,017,037
• Commercial and industrial accounts: 223,603

We Energies generation and distribution statistics as of February 2015

• Electric distribution lines: 45,420 miles (Overhead: 22,210; Underground: 23,210)
• Substations: 353
• American Transmission Company-owned transmission lines: 2,855 miles
• Gas main: 20,155 miles
• High/low pressure steam piping: 16 miles
• Peak electric demand (We Energies and Edison Sault Electric* combined):
  • Summer: 6,505 MW 07/31/06
  • Winter: 5,066 MW 12/22/04
    *Edison Sault Electric was sold in May 2010.
• Record load demand for a 24-hour period: 134,939 MWh 08/01/06
• Peak natural gas send-out: 1,920,568 dekatherms 01/06/14
• Peak steam demand: 1,081,000 lbs./hr. 01/18/95