Wisconsin Public Service Corporation headquarters

Wisconsin Public Service Corporation, commonly known as WPS, is a utility company headquartered in

Green Bay, Wisconsin Green Bay is a city in Brown County, Wisconsin, United States, and its county seat. It is located at the head of Green Bay (Lake Michigan), Green Bay (known locally as "the bay of Green Bay"), a sub-basin of Lake Michigan at the mouth of the F ...

. The company serves more than 450,000 electric customers and more than 333,000 natural gas customers in 27 counties in eastern, northeastern northern, and central

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, and a small portion of

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History

Wisconsin Public Service began in 1883 as the Oshkosh Gas Light Company. It was incorporated as the Wisconsin Public Service Corporation in 1922. It was first listed on the New York and Midwest stock exchanges in 1953. In 1994, WPS became a subsidiary of WPS Resources Corporation, an energy holding company. In February 2007, WPS Resources Corporation became part of the

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. WPS owns two coal, and one natural gas power generation plants. It also owns 15 hydroelectric power plants on the Wisconsin, Tomahawk, Peshtigo and Menominee rivers, and a wind farm in northeastern

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. The

Weston Power Plant The Weston Generating Station, also known as the Weston Power Plant, is a base load, coal fired, electrical power station located in the villages of Rothschild and Kronenwetter in Marathon County, Wisconsin, United States. In 2009, it was listed ...

is a coal-fired power plant rated at 981 megawatts and is located near

Wausau, Wisconsin Wausau ( ) is a city in Marathon County, Wisconsin, United States, and its county seat. It is located along the Wisconsin River and had a population of 39,994 as of the 2020 United States census, 2020 census. It is the core city of the Wausau ...

. The Weston 4 unit was built in 2008 and is considered to be one of the cleanest coal-fired power plants in the country. The J. P. Pulliam Generating Station was a 375 MW coal-fired generating plant located near downtown Green Bay that was shuttered in 2018. The Fox Energy Center is the company's most recent acquisition (2012). It is a natural gas–fired power plant, has a capacity of nearly 500 megawatts and is located near

Kaukauna, Wisconsin Kaukauna () is a city in Outagamie and Calumet counties, Wisconsin, United States. It is situated on the Fox River, approximately north of Milwaukee. The population was 17,089 at the 2020 census. It is a part of the Appleton, Wisconsin M ...

. The company's transmission voltages are 69,000 volts, 115,000 volts, 138,000 volts and 345,000 volts. WPS also has a few sub-transmission lines operating at 46,000 volts. The 115 kV and 46 kV lines are mostly used in the western part of Wisconsin Public Service's service area in the Wausau, Rhinelander and

Stevens Point Stevens Point is a city in Portage County, Wisconsin, United States, and its county seat. Its population was 25,666 at the 2020 census. It forms the core of the Stevens Point micropolitan statistical area, which had a population of 70,377 in 20 ...

. WPS mostly uses 24,900/14,400 volts as its distribution voltage, however, 12,470/7,200 volts systems can be found in a few rural areas. WPS is interconnected on the power grid to

Minnesota Power 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 ...

Duluth, Minnesota Duluth ( ) is a Port, port city in the U.S. state of Minnesota and the county seat of St. Louis County, Minnesota, St. Louis County. Located on Lake Superior in Minnesota's Arrowhead Region, the city is a hub for cargo shipping. The population ...

via the Arrowhead-Weston 345,000 volt line and to

Xcel Energy Xcel Energy Inc. is a U.S. regulated electric utility and natural gas delivery company based in Minneapolis, Minnesota, serving more than 3.7 million electric customers and 2.1 million natural gas customers across parts of eight states (Color ...

via the Arpin-Rocky Run 345,000-volt line.

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* {{Authority control Electric power companies of the United States Companies based in Green Bay, Wisconsin

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