Wisconsin Energy, Wisconsin Electric Declare Quarterly Dividends

• Press Release
• Source: Wisconsin Energy Corporation
• On 2:12 pm EDT, Thursday October 15, 2009

MILWAUKEE, Oct. 15 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- The boards of directors of Wisconsin Energy Corporation (NYSE: WEC - News) and Wisconsin Electric Power Company today declared regular quarterly dividends.

Wisconsin Energy

The Wisconsin Energy board of directors declared a quarterly dividend of 33.75 cents a share on the company's common stock. The dividend is payable Dec. 1, 2009, to stockholders of record on Nov. 13, 2009.

Wisconsin Electric

The board of directors of Wisconsin Electric Power Company declared a quarterly dividend of 90 cents a share on the Preferred Stock, 3.60% Series, payable Dec. 1, 2009, to stockholders of record on Nov. 13, 2009. The board further declared a quarterly dividend of $1.50 a share on the Six Per Cent Preferred Stock payable Jan. 31, 2010, to stockholders of record on Jan. 14, 2010.

Wisconsin Energy Corporation (NYSE: WEC - News), based in Milwaukee, is one of the nation's premier energy companies, serving more than 1.1 million electric customers in Wisconsin and Michigan's Upper Peninsula and more than 1 million natural gas customers in Wisconsin. The company's principal utilities are We Energies and Edison Sault Electric. The company's other major subsidiary, We Power, designs, builds and owns electric generating plants. Wisconsin Energy Corporation (www.wisconsinenergy.com), a component of the S&P 500, has more than $12 billion of assets, approximately 5,000 employees and 48,000 stockholders of record.

Wisconsin Electric Power Company, a principal utility subsidiary of Wisconsin Energy Corporation (NYSE: WEC), is now doing business as We Energies. The company serves more than 1.1 million electric customers in Wisconsin and Michigan's Upper Peninsula and more than 460,000 natural gas customers in Wisconsin. Visit the We Energies Web site at www.we-energies.com.

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