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The long-planned shut down of We Energies' Oak Creek Coal plant begins in May. Here's what's involved in closing a 60-year-old power plant.
As it prepares to end the use of coal at its Oak Creek Power Plant, We Energies is simultaneously laying plans to build a $1.2 billion natural gas plant on the 1,000-acre Lake Michigan shoreline ...
The We Energies Elm Road Generating Station seen fromthe room of the Oak Creek Power Plant in Oak Creek on Friday, Dec. 8, 2023. We Energies is moving to shut down the first of four coal-powered ...
Oak Creek Power Plant, also known as South Oak Creek, is a base load, coal- and natural gas-fired, electrical power station located on Lake Michigan in Oak Creek, Wisconsin. Oak Creek Power Plant along with Elm Road Generation Station make up the entire Oak Creek Generating Site. The plant was built for an initial cost of $246 million. [1]
Coal plants have been closing at a fast rate since 2010 (290 plants closed from 2010 to May 2019; this was 40% of the US's coal generating capacity) due to competition from other generating sources, primarily cheaper and cleaner natural gas (a result of the fracking boom), which has replaced so many coal plants that natural gas now accounts for ...
Coal generated 16% of electricity in the United States in 2023, [1] an amount less than that from renewable energy or nuclear power, [2] [3] and about half of that generated by natural gas plants. Coal was 17% of generating capacity. [4] Between 2010 and May 2019, 290 coal power plants, representing 40% of the U.S. coal generating capacity, closed.
More: When a coal-plant closes: Inside We Energies' Oak Creek Power Plant as it is prepped for shutdown The coal conveyor at We Energies' Oak Creek Power Plant in Oak Creek on Friday, Dec. 8, 2023.
2002 Wisconsin Electric and Wisconsin Gas began doing business as We Energies. 2004 Wisconsin Energy sold the non-energy assets of WICOR for US$850 million as part of its strategy to divest its non-core businesses. 2005 Construction of two 615-megawatt coal-fired units began at the Oak Creek Power Plant site. The same year, the first of two 545 ...