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schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0000783325-25-000019"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "WELPP"
cik: "0000107815"
company_name: "WISCONSIN ELECTRIC POWER CO"
filed_at: "2025-06-25T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-18T18:58:28.237155+00:00"
event_type: "other_material"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.6
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.6
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# We Energies postpones Oak Creek units 7 & 8 retirement to end of 2026

## Summary
- Units 7 and 8 (610 MW total) will remain available through end of 2026, originally set to retire end of 2025.
- Decision driven by tightened Midwest power supply and reliability risk for peak demand periods.
- Company cited elevated risk of power shortages and price spikes per national grid experts.
- We Energies continues planning 6,300+ MW of new generation (natural gas, wind, solar, storage) over next five years; no delay to those projects.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0000783325-25-000019
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: WELPP
- cik: 0000107815
- company_name: WISCONSIN ELECTRIC POWER CO
- filed_at: 2025-06-25T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other_material
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.6
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.6
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 7.01, 8.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/107815/000078332525000019/0000783325-25-000019-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/107815/000078332525000019/wec-20250625.htm

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