Wisconsin Public Service Corporation headquarters

Wisconsin Public Service Corporation (WPS) is a utility company headquartered in

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. 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

WPS began in 1883 as the Oshkosh Gas Light Company. It was incorporated as Wisconsin Public Service in 1922. And 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

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. A detailed history of the company can be found at https://accel.wisconsinpublicservice.com/company/history.aspx. 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 is coal-fired power plant rated at 981 megawatts and is located near

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. 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 J. P. Pulliam Generating Station was an electrical power station powered by sub-bituminous coal, which could also be substituted by natural gas. It was located in Green Bay, Wisconsin in Brown County. The plant was named after the former Wisco ...

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

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. 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

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. 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 in

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

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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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