Integrys Energy Group, Inc. was an American

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headquartered in

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. It was formed by the merger of WPS Resources Corp. and

Peoples Energy Peoples Gas (short for The Peoples Gas Light and Coke Company) is a gas utility subsidiary of WEC Energy Group serving the city of Chicago, Illinois, and its northern suburbs. History Established in 1849, in Chicago, Illinois, The Peoples Ga ...

Corp. on February 21, 2007. The chairman, President, and chief executive officer was Charles A. Schrock. On June 23, 2014, Integrys announced that it was being acquired by

Wisconsin Energy Corporation WEC Energy Group is an American energy company based in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. It provides electricity and natural gas to 4.4 million customers across four states. Subsidiaries Wisconsin * We Energies, the umbrella name for Wisconsin Electric ...

for $9.1 billion. Also in 2014, Integrys entered into an agreement to sell 100% of the Upper Peninsula Power Company (UPPCO) to Balfour Beatty Infrastructure Partners LP for $298.9 million.

Utilities

The six regulated utilities consisted of: *The

Peoples Gas Light and Coke Company Peoples Gas (short for The Peoples Gas Light and Coke Company) is a natural gas, gas public utility, utility subsidiary of WEC Energy Group serving the city of Chicago, Illinois, and its northern suburbs. History Established in 1849, in Chica ...

, a

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utility serving approximately 873,000 customers in the City of Chicago. *

Wisconsin Public Service Corporation Wisconsin Public Service Corporation, commonly known as WPS, is a utility company headquartered in Green Bay, Wisconsin. The company serves more than 450,000 electric customers and more than 333,000 natural gas customers in 27 counties in eas ...

, an electric and natural gas utility serving approximately 446,000 electric customers and 330,000 natural gas customers in northeast and central Wisconsin. *

Minnesota Energy Resources Corporation Minnesota ( ) is a U.S. state, state in the Upper Midwestern region of the United States. It is bordered by the Canadian provinces of Manitoba and Ontario to the north and east and by the U.S. states of Wisconsin to the east, Iowa to the so ...

, a natural gas utility serving approximately 238,000 customers throughout Minnesota. *

Michigan Gas Utilities Corporation Michigan ( ) is a peninsular state in the Great Lakes region of the Upper Midwestern United States. It shares water and land boundaries with Minnesota to the northwest, Wisconsin to the west, Indiana and Illinois to the southwest, Ohio t ...

, a natural gas utility serving approximately 176,000 customers in lower Michigan. *

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, a natural gas utility serving approximatel
162,000 customers
in the northern suburbs of Chicago. *

Upper Peninsula Power Company The Upper Peninsula Power Company (UPPCO) is an electrical power utility provider headquartered in Marquette, Michigan, with service centers in Escanaba, Houghton, Iron River, Ishpeming, Munising and Ontonagon. History The Upper Peninsula Power ...

, an electric utility serving approximately 52,000 customers in Michigan's Upper Peninsula. ''Note:'' Integrys announced its intention to sell Upper Peninsula Power to

Balfour Beatty Infrastructure Partners LP Balfour may refer to: People * Balfour (surname), a Scottish family name * Balfour (given name), a list of people with the name Places Canada * Balfour, British Columbia, an unincorporated community * Balfour, one of the townships that merged to ...

on 20 January 2014.

Subsidiaries

The company's other subsidiaries were: *Integrys Business Support, Integrys Energy Group's business services company — providing services and solutions for operation of Integrys' subsidiaries. *

Integrys Energy Services, Inc. Integrys Energy Group, Inc. was an American energy company headquartered in Chicago, Illinois. It was formed by the merger of WPS Resources Corp. and Peoples Energy Corp. on February 21, 2007. The chairman, President, and chief executive office ...

, a diversified nonregulated energy supply and services company serving residential, commercial, industrial, and wholesale customers in developed competitive markets in the United States. *Integrys Transportation Fuels, with compressed natural gas fueling stations operating across the United States under the brand name Trillium CNG.

Criticism

In December 2011, the non-partisan organization

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criticized Integrys Energy Group for spending $710,000 on

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and not paying any taxes during 2008–2010, instead receiving $92 million in tax rebates, despite making a profit of $818 million and increasing executive pay by 109% to $14.8 million in 2010 for its top 5 executives.

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