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Hold WE Energies Accountable for Health Harms

WE Energies is a monopoly utility corporation, which means communities cannot shop around for a cleaner, more affordable energy provider. WE Energies’ rate hikes, pollution, and delays in the transition to clean energy directly impact communities’ health and wallets.

We mobilize health professionals across the WE Energies service territory to hold the utility accountable to communities. Together, we advocate for safe, clean, and affordable energy so every community can be healthy and thrive.
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Wisconsin health professionals hold WE Energies accountable for harming community health in a new quarterly report, contrasting WE Energies' Q4 earnings release

In the February quarterly earnings report, WE Energies reported record profits of $1.6 billion in 2025. This was paid for by communities at the expense of their health and rising energy bills. Wisconsin health professionals hold WE Energies accountable in a new report to raise awareness of how WE Energies’ predatory practices result in health harms that show up in our waiting rooms and communities.

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​The report covers:

  • ​WE Energies raking in record profits while households absorb the costs

  • WE Energies taking advantage of the AI data center boom to build fossil fuel plants

  • WE Energies submitting buy-sell dockets to purchase new fossil fuel projects from Invenergy, a merchant utility, avoiding the level of review typically expected of a utility monopoly

  • WE Energies data center rate case before the Public Service Commission, which has communities picking up the tab for big tech

WEC Energy Group reported

$1.6 Billion

in net income in 2025

WE Energies' top executives received a combined total of 

$32.7 Million

in compensation in 2024

Regulators approved rate increases that will raise average bills by

over 2025–2026

12%

of households cut back on food or medication to pay energy bills

34%

See references

Wisconsin health professionals raise awareness of how WE Energies’ predatory practices result in health harms that show up in our waiting rooms and communities.
When WE Energies raises rates, emits more pollution, or delays transition to clean energy, the effects show up in our waiting rooms as asthma attacks, heart failure decompensation, heat-related illness, and financial stress that worsens nearly every chronic condition.
- Annie Carrell, NP
By purchasing the methane gas plant [Red Oak Ridge Energy Center, Kenosha County] from Invenergy, WE Energies can expand their fossil fuel infrastructure in Wisconsin, while avoiding the level of review typically expected of a utility monopoly. This limits transparency and weakens community participation in decisions that will have long-term public health consequences.
- Ifadha Jayah, MPH
Despite the ongoing climate crisis, WE Energies is taking advantage of the hyperscale data center boom to cash in by building out fossil fuel infrastructure which further pollutes our air and harms community health.
- Landon Zimmerman, third-year Medical Student
The WE Energies data center rate case proposed to the PSC is not strong enough to protect everyday Wisconsinites from having to pick up the tab for billion-dollar tech corporations. We are urging the PSC to require data centers to pay 100% of their own energy costs.
- Julia Alberth, MPH
Learn more about the WE Energies data center rate case >
In my time as a medical student, I have seen far too many community members whose health has been impacted by climate change. Communities will continue to face growing health risks if companies like WE Energies continue to prioritize profits and the interests of big tech companies over the health of people and our planet.
- Landon Zimmerman, third-year Medical Student
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