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The parent company of We Energies is proposing to restart a shuttered Wisconsin nuclear plant.
WEC Energy Group and Utah based EnergySolutions are exploring a reactivation of the Kewaunee Power station that was shut down in 2013. EnergySolutions purchased the property in 2022 to decommission the site, but has since reached out to WEC Energy to build a new generation facility that would be smaller and more efficient than the one built there in the 1970s.
The plan would require permitting from the US Department of Energy and several state agencies in order to start. Lawmakers in Madison have already floated the idea of increasing nuclear power in the state, with several bills aimed at exploring the energy option currently in the committee process at the Capitol.
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