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• Public Service Commission of Wisconsin examines new coal technology

  - 2006-06-05

  All of the sudden, integrated gasification combined-cycle technology doesn't seem like such a bad idea. The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources and the Public Service Commission of Wisconsin released a draft report Thursday that reviews benefits, costs and future prospects of IGCC technology for the state. The report...

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• Groups sue Public Service Commission of Wisconsin over utility

  - 2005-12-29

  Two groups are taking the Public Service Commission of Wisconsin to court to argue it should've ordered We Energies to return $52 million to ratepayers. The case centers on a 2000 PSC decision setting a cap on the return on investment the utility could receive from selling electricity...

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• WI's Public Service Commission is reviewing clean coal technology

  - 2005-08-23

  The future may have come a little quicker than the Public Service Commission expected. Following Gov. Jim Doyle's announcement of his Conserve Wisconsin initiative last week, in which he called on the Department of Natural Resources and PSC to explore the possibility of implementing integrated gasification combined cycle...

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• Wisconsin Public Service Commission, We Energies argue the case for

  - 2005-03-31

  The state's largest utility company and government energy regulators made a final attempt Wednesday to revive the biggest construction project in Wisconsin history. Before a packed state Supreme Court chamber, We Energies LLC, Milwaukee, and the Public Service Commission asked the justices in oral arguments to overturn a...

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• Challenges to Elm Road generation station consolidated into one court

  - 2004-01-09

  A Milwaukee County Circuit Court Wednesday consolidated the four challenges to the Elm Road generation station approval into one case and decided the Dane County courts should hear it. The Public Service Commission of Wisconsin is faced with four separate legal petitions, filed in three different counties by...

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• Public Service Commission hears request for rate increases

  - 2003-12-18

  Public Service Commission hearings closed yesterday for two We Energies requests to increase electric and natural gas rates to pay for three projects, including the new Port Washington generation station. Wisconsin Electric Power Company and the Wisconsin Gas Company requested the 2004 rate increases in July to increase...

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• Wisconsin Public Service Commission OK's We Energies' power plant

  - 2003-11-11

  The state Public Service Commission on Monday put its final stamp of approval on We Energies' plan to build coal-fired power plants in Oak Creek. The commission took less than five minutes to approve unanimously a written order ratifying the decisions it reached last month. As expected, the...

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• Wisconsin to allow We Energies to build proposed power plants

  - 2003-10-30

  We Energies can build two of its three proposed coal-fired power plants in Oak Creek, state regulators agreed Wednesday. But the three members of the Public Service Commission sided with previous findings that the third is too costly and relies on as-yet unproven technology. In a second blow,...

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• We Energies rethinks plans for Oak Creek power plant

  - 2003-10-06

  We Energies last week acknowledged the shortcomings of a key component of its Power the Future plan and asked state regulators to hold off on fully approving the third piece of its three-unit proposal for Oak Creek. In a brief filed with the Public Service Commission, the Milwaukee-...

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• Wisc. Public Service applies to add coal-burning unit to power plant

  - 2003-09-30

  After a year of preparation, Wisconsin Public Service Corp. Friday formally applied to add a $750 million baseload coal-burning unit to its Weston power plant in Rothschild. We're very pleased with the public input that we received, and our goal throughout this entire process has been to keep...

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