INCOME TAXES

6 Months Ended

Jun. 30, 2025

Income Tax Disclosure [Abstract]

INCOME TAXES

INCOME TAXES

The provision for income taxes differs from the amount of income tax determined by applying the applicable United States statutory federal income tax rate to income before income taxes as a result of the following:

	Three Months Ended June 30, 2025				Three Months Ended June 30, 2024
(in millions)	Amount		Effective Tax Rate		Amount		Effective Tax Rate
Statutory federal income tax	$	14.2	21.0	%	$	11.3	21.0	%
State income taxes net of federal tax benefit	4.2		6.3	%	3.4		6.2	%
PTCs, net	(4.1)		(6.1)	%	(3.1)		(5.8)	%
Federal excess deferred tax amortization	(2.2)		(3.2)	%	(1.1)		(2.0)	%
ITCs	(0.7)		(1.1)	%	(0.7)		(1.3)	%
Other, net	0.9		1.3	%	0.4		0.8	%
Total income tax expense	$	12.3	18.2	%	$	10.2	18.9	%
	Six Months Ended June 30, 2025				Six Months Ended June 30, 2024
(in millions)	Amount		Effective Tax Rate		Amount		Effective Tax Rate
Statutory federal income tax	$	33.6	21.0	%	$	29.0	21.0	%
State income taxes net of federal tax benefit	9.9		6.2	%	8.6		6.2	%
PTCs, net	(9.9)		(6.2)	%	(7.1)		(5.2)	%
Federal excess deferred tax amortization	(5.0)		(3.1)	%	(2.6)		(1.9)	%
ITCs	(1.7)		(1.1)	%	(1.7)		(1.2)	%
Other, net	1.9		1.2	%	0.7		0.6	%
Total income tax expense	$	28.8	18.0	%	$	26.9	19.5	%

The effective tax rates for the three and six months ended June 30, 2025 and 2024, differ from the United States statutory federal income tax rate of 21%, primarily due to PTCs and the impact of the protected deferred tax benefits associated with the Tax Legislation, as discussed in more detail below. These items were substantially offset by state income taxes.

The Tax Legislation required us to remeasure the deferred income taxes at our utility segment, and we began to amortize the resulting excess protected deferred income taxes beginning in 2018 in accordance with normalization requirements (see federal excess deferred tax amortization lines above).

The IRA contains a tax credit transferability provision that allows us to sell PTCs produced after December 31, 2022, to third parties. Under this transferability provision, WEC Energy Group entered into agreements in October 2024 and April 2025 to sell the majority of the PTCs we generate in 2025 and 2026, respectively, to third parties. In May 2025, WEC Energy Group entered into an agreement to sell the majority of our remaining unsold PTCs we generated in 2024 to a third party. We elect to account for tax credits transferred under the scope of Accounting Standards Codification 740. We include the discount from the sale of tax credits as a component of income tax expense. We also include any expected proceeds from the sale of tax credits in the evaluation of the realizability of deferred tax assets related to PTCs. The sale of tax credits is presented in the operating activities section of the statements of cash flows consistent with the presentation of cash taxes paid.