Paul Kiefer
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Wisconsin ratepayers costs of keeping Michigan coal plant open (opens the original)
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Wisconsin ratepayers may no longer be on the hook to keep a Michigan coal plant running past its retirement date. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit on Sept. 11 overturned a U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) order keeping the 60-year-old J.H. Campbell power plant online. A 2025 Federal Energy Regulatory Commission order required ratepayers across the Midwest to share the plant’s operating costs.The Energy Department intervened to block the western Michigan plant’s sched
Court ruling spares Wisconsin ratepayers costs of keeping Michigan coal plant open (opens the original)
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Wisconsin ratepayers may no longer be on the hook to keep a Michigan coal plant running past its retirement date. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit on Friday overturned a U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) order keeping the 60-year-old J.H. Campbell power plant online. A 2025 Federal Energy Regulatory Commission order required ratepayers across the Midwest to share the plant’s operating costs.The Energy Department intervened to block the western Michigan plant’s schedul
Microsoft, ratepayer advocates challenge ATC plan for data center transmission costs (opens the original)
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Microsoft and Wisconsin ratepayer advocates are asking federal regulators to hit the brakes on a proposal to allocate the costs of transmission infrastructure built to serve data centers. Both argue that We Energies and the American Transmission Company’s (ATC) recent proposal to federal regulators fails to adequately protect Wisconsinites from picking up the construction bill, among other concerns. The utilities’ plan — setting a minimum transmission charge for Microsoft based on its Mount Plea
We Energies signs 20-year Point Beach nuclear power deal (opens the original)
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We Energies signed a new 20-year agreement to purchase electricity from the Point Beach nuclear plant in Manitowoc County, resolving uncertainty about the relationship between the utility and the state’s largest power plant. The agreement, disclosed in a Tuesday U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission filing, still requires sign-off from Wisconsin’s Public Service Commission (PSC). The roughly 60-year-old facility is Wisconsin’s only active nuclear power plant. We Energies owned the plant until
Oracle drops lawsuit challenging Wisconsin data center credit rules (opens the original)
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Oracle moved to voluntarily drop its lawsuit against Wisconsin’s utility regulator on Monday, nearly two months after the tech giant turned to the Ozaukee County Circuit Court to challenge new credit rating requirements for data center developers in eastern Wisconsin. With the case put to rest, the credit rating rules — intended to shield other Wisconsin ratepayers from fallout in the event a data center developer goes bust — now stand unchallenged. Oracle previously argued the requirements were
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