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Paris (WI)
Power plant · Gas, combustion turbine
Key facts
Power plant · Gas, combustion turbineran 6% of 2025 Operating- Capacity
- Capacity: sourceEIA-860M · Open licenseMW
- Commissioned
- 1995
- Net generation, 2025
- 215,006 MWh
- Grid
- 138 kV to American Transmission Co (MISO)
- Location
- Kenosha County, Wisconsin
- Operated by
- Wisconsin Electric Power Co
Output
- Gas
- Oil
Details
Who’s behind it
- Owner
- WEC Energy Group
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- Technology
- Gas, combustion turbine source: “Natural Gas Fired Combustion Turbine”
- Age
- 31 years since 1995
- Unused energy
- 3,128 GWh 2025Unused energyA lead, not a guarantee: MW × hours × (1 − capacity factor) for the latest year (EIA-923), gas, coal and oil plants only. Air-permit run-hour caps, heat rate (cost to run) and capacity-market or reliability obligations can rule it out.
- Heat rate
- 13,200 Btu/kWh 2025
All 7 attributes from EIA-860M Preliminary Monthly Electric Generator Inventory
| Attribute | Value |
|---|---|
| Grid |
|
| EPA greenhouse gas reporting (GHGRP) |
|
| Fuel burned (MMBtu), 2025 | 2,838,193 |
| Capacity factor, 2025 | 0.064 |
| Heat rate (Btu/kWh), 2025 | 13,200.5 |
| Net generation (MWh), 2025 | 215,006.0 |
| Balancing authority code | MISO |
Ownership
2 companies2| Company | Role | Share | As of | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wisconsin Electric Power Co | Operator | EIA-860M | ||
| WEC Energy Group | Owner | 100.0% | Dec 31, 2023 | EPA GHGRP |
Timeline
- In service · EIA-860M
Sources
4 sourcesSources EIA-860M · EIA · EIA-860M Preliminary Monthly Electric Generator Inventory · EPA Greenhouse Gas Reporting Program — facility register with parent-company shares (Envirofacts pub_dim_facility; FLIGHT)
Sources
- EIA-860M
- EIASource: U.S. Energy Information Administration, Electricity bulk data (Form EIA-923 monthly plant series)
- EIA-860M Preliminary Monthly Electric Generator Inventory
- EPA Greenhouse Gas Reporting Program — facility register with parent-company shares (Envirofacts pub_dim_facility; FLIGHT)
Around this plant
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| IL - Renewable Properties - Bobcat - Wes Under construction | Solar | 14.6 mi | 4.5 |
Sources EIA-860M · Berkeley Lab · FAA OE/AAA · EPA ICIS-Air
Sources
- EIA-860M
- Berkeley LabLawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and GridTracker, Queued Up data file (2026 edition), CC BY 4.0. Modified by Inframation: non-ISO and MISO regions only; MISO rows labelled with the date the file's queue data runs to; statuses and technologies mapped to Inframation's vocabulary. Queued Up Data File. Copyright (c) 2026, The Regents of the University of California, through Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (subject to receipt of any required approvals from the U.S. Dept. of Energy) & GridTracker.
- FAA OE/AAA
- EPA ICIS-Air