# Elm Road Generating Station

MISO asset profile · https://askthegrid.com/assets/facilities/elm-road-generating-station

Wisconsin Electric Power Company - Milwaukee County - MISO

Elm Road Generating Station (EIA plant 56068) is a two-unit, 1,402.6 MW nameplate supercritical pulverized-coal steam-turbine facility located at We Energies' Oak Creek site on the shore of Lake Michigan, 20 miles south of Milwaukee in Milwaukee County, Wisconsin. The units are currently coal-fired with natural-gas startup and co-fire capability (currently up to 60% heat input). A proposed gas-fuel-flexibility project under Public Service Commission of Wisconsin docket 5-CE-161 would retrofit the existing boilers to enable full-rate natural-gas firing while retaining coal as a backup fuel; it is distinct from the separate five-unit South Oak Creek combustion-turbine project. The facility is jointly owned by W.E. Power, LLC (83.34% each unit), Madison Gas & Electric Company through MGE Power Elm Road, LLC (8.33% each unit), and WPPI Energy (8.33% each unit). Wisconsin Electric Power Company operates the facility under a long-term lease structure established in 2004.

## Metrics

- **Nameplate capacity:** 1402.6 MW — Canonical EIA plant baseline.
- **Registry anchor:** Plant 56068 — plant-56068

## Facts

- **Technology:** Natural Gas Steam Turbine
- **Operator:** Wisconsin Electric Power Company

## Related parties

- **Owner / operator:** Wisconsin Electric Power Company — Operator, site owner, and lead applicant for gas-fuel-flexibility project ([source](https://www.we-energies.com/company/key-facts))
- **Equipment supplier:** Hitachi America, Ltd. — Supplied two 677 MW supercritical boiler and steam-turbine generator units and auxiliary equipment ([source](https://www.hitachi.com/en-us/press/archive/09202004/))
- **Regulator:** Public Service Commission of Wisconsin — State regulatory authority; docket 5-CE-161 governs gas-fuel-flexibility approval ([source](https://apps.psc.wi.gov/ERF/ERFview/viewdoc.aspx?docid=568352))
- **Parent company:** WEC Energy Group, Inc. — Parent company of Wisconsin Electric Power Company and W.E. Power, LLC

## Sources

- [hitachi.com](https://www.hitachi.com/en-us/press/archive/09202004/) — hitachi.com · public_source — Source retained for exact-record publication review.
- [mge.com](https://www.mge.com/about-mge/electric-system/coal-fired-generation) — mge.com · public_source — Source retained for exact-record publication review.

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