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ACCESSION NUMBER:		0000107815-24-000221
CONFORMED SUBMISSION TYPE:	CORRESP
PUBLIC DOCUMENT COUNT:		1
FILED AS OF DATE:		20240820

FILER:

	COMPANY DATA:	
		COMPANY CONFORMED NAME:			WEC ENERGY GROUP, INC.
		CENTRAL INDEX KEY:			0000783325
		STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION:	ELECTRIC & OTHER SERVICES COMBINED [4931]
		ORGANIZATION NAME:           	01 Energy & Transportation
		IRS NUMBER:				391391525
		STATE OF INCORPORATION:			WI
		FISCAL YEAR END:			1231

	FILING VALUES:
		FORM TYPE:		CORRESP

	BUSINESS ADDRESS:	
		STREET 1:		231 W MICHIGAN ST
		STREET 2:		P O BOX 1331
		CITY:			MILWAUKEE
		STATE:			WI
		ZIP:			53201
		BUSINESS PHONE:		414-221-2345

	MAIL ADDRESS:	
		STREET 1:		231 WEST MICHIGAN STREET
		STREET 2:		P O BOX 1331
		CITY:			MILWAUKEE
		STATE:			WI
		ZIP:			53201

	FORMER COMPANY:	
		FORMER CONFORMED NAME:	WISCONSIN ENERGY CORP
		DATE OF NAME CHANGE:	19920703
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<title>Document</title></head><body><div id="i8af42fca67824e3aae46b46ea672f7aa_61"></div><div style="min-height:36pt;width:100%"><div><font><br></font></div></div><div><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Calibri',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">August 20, 2024</font></div><div><font><br></font></div><div><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Calibri',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">VIA EDGAR</font></div><div><font><br></font></div><div><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Calibri',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission</font></div><div><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Calibri',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">Division of Corporation Finance</font></div><div><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Calibri',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">Office of Energy &#38; Transportation</font></div><div><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Calibri',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">100 F. Street, N.E.</font></div><div><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Calibri',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">Washington, D.C. 20549</font></div><div><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Calibri',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">Attn&#58; Brad Skinner, Office Chief, Office of Energy &#38; Transportation</font></div><div><font><br></font></div><div><table style="border-collapse:collapse;display:inline-table;margin-bottom:5pt;vertical-align:text-bottom;width:540.00pt"><tr><td style="width:1.0pt"></td><td style="width:28.75pt"></td><td style="width:1.0pt"></td><td style="width:1.0pt"></td><td style="width:16.75pt"></td><td style="width:1.0pt"></td><td style="width:1.0pt"></td><td style="width:220.75pt"></td><td style="width:1.0pt"></td><td style="width:1.0pt"></td><td style="width:265.75pt"></td><td style="width:1.0pt"></td></tr><tr style="height:12pt"><td colspan="3" style="padding:2px 1pt;text-align:left;vertical-align:bottom"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Calibri',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:700;line-height:100%">&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;</font></td><td colspan="3" style="padding:2px 1pt;text-align:left;vertical-align:bottom"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Calibri',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:700;line-height:100%">Re&#58;</font></td><td colspan="3" style="padding:2px 1pt;text-align:left;vertical-align:bottom"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Calibri',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:700;line-height:100%">WEC Energy Group, Inc.</font></td><td colspan="3" style="padding:0 1pt"></td></tr><tr style="height:12pt"><td colspan="3" style="padding:2px 1pt;text-align:left;vertical-align:bottom"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Calibri',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:700;line-height:100%">&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;</font></td><td colspan="3" style="padding:0 1pt"></td><td colspan="3" style="padding:2px 1pt;text-align:left;vertical-align:bottom"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Calibri',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:700;line-height:100%">Form 10-K for Fiscal Year Ended December 31, 2023</font></td><td colspan="3" style="padding:0 1pt"></td></tr><tr style="height:12pt"><td colspan="3" style="padding:2px 1pt;text-align:left;vertical-align:bottom"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Calibri',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:700;line-height:100%">&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;</font></td><td colspan="3" style="padding:0 1pt"></td><td colspan="3" style="padding:2px 1pt;text-align:left;vertical-align:bottom"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Calibri',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:700;line-height:100%">Filed February 22, 2024</font></td><td colspan="3" style="padding:0 1pt"></td></tr><tr style="height:12pt"><td colspan="3" style="padding:2px 1pt;text-align:left;vertical-align:bottom"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Calibri',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:700;line-height:100%">&#160;&#160;&#160;</font></td><td colspan="3" style="padding:0 1pt"></td><td colspan="3" style="padding:2px 1pt;text-align:left;vertical-align:bottom"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Calibri',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:700;line-height:100%">File No. 001-01245</font></td><td colspan="3" style="padding:0 1pt"></td></tr></table></div><div><font><br></font></div><div><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Calibri',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:400;line-height:112%">Dear Mr. Skinner&#58;</font></div><div><font><br></font></div><div><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Calibri',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:400;line-height:112%">This letter sets forth the response of WEC Energy Group, Inc. to the comments from the staff (the &#8220;Staff&#8221;) of the Securities and Exchange Commission (the &#8220;Commission&#8221;) set forth in the letter dated July 24, 2024, in connection with the Company&#8217;s Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2023, filed with the Commission on February 22, 2024. When used in this letter, references to the &#8220;Company,&#8221; &#8220;we,&#8221; &#8220;us,&#8221; and &#8220;our&#8221; refer to WEC Energy Group, Inc. and its subsidiaries. We have used other acronyms in this letter in the same context as defined in the document referred to in your comments, with respect to the above-referenced filing. </font></div><div><font><br></font></div><div><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Calibri',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:400;line-height:112%">For ease of reference, the Staff&#8217;s comment is repeated below with the Company&#8217;s response set forth immediately following. </font></div><div><font><br></font></div><div><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Calibri',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:700;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">Form 10-K for Fiscal Year Ended December 31, 2023</font></div><div><font><br></font></div><div><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Calibri',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:700;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">Management's Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations Non-GAAP Financial Measures, page 52</font></div><div><font><br></font></div><div style="padding-left:22.5pt;text-indent:-22.5pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Calibri',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">1.</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Calibri',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;padding-left:14.92pt">We note that your measures of the electric and natural gas margins appear to exclude certain amounts that would be attributable to cost of revenues and reflected in measures of gross margin in accordance with GAAP, such as operating and maintenance expenses and depreciation and amortization. Therefore, it appears that your margin measures should be clearly identified as non-GAAP measures and that you would need to adhere to the disclosure requirements in Item 10(e) of Regulation S-K. For example, electric gross margin and natural gas gross margin, each reflecting all costs and expenses applicable to revenues, would be identified as the most directly comparable GAAP measures in providing the disclosures required by Item 10(e)(1)(i)(A) and (B) of Regulation S-K&#59; reconciliations to your non-GAAP measures should begin with these GAAP measures.</font></div><div><font><br></font></div><div style="padding-left:22.5pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Calibri',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">In your revised disclosure, please also include analyses of the changes in these most directly comparable GAAP measures, similar to those provided for changes in your non-GAAP measures of the electric and gas margins. Please refer to Question 100.05 and 102.10(a) and (b) of the Division's Non-GAAP Financial Measures Compliance and Disclosure Interpretations.</font></div><div style="padding-left:22.5pt"><font><br></font></div><div style="padding-left:22.5pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Calibri',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">Please provide a response that clearly explains how you intend to revise your non-GAAP and MD&#38;A disclosures. Please note this comment also applies to the disclosures of your utility subsidiaries.</font></div><div><font><br></font></div><div><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Calibri',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-style:italic;font-weight:700;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">Response&#58;</font></div><div><font><br></font></div><div><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Calibri',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">The Company respectfully acknowledges the Staff&#8217;s comment and view that our presentation of electric margin and natural gas margin are non-GAAP measures as they exclude certain costs and expenses applicable to revenues, and that the most directly comparable GAAP measure is electric gross margin and natural gas gross margin that reflect all costs and expenses applicable to revenues. In response, the Company will no longer present non-GAAP electric margin and non-GAAP natural gas margin. Instead, the Company will present a combined non-GAAP utility margin for each of its three utility segments and will provide a reconciliation of GAAP gross margin to non-GAAP utility margin for these segments in future filings.  </font></div><div><font><br></font></div><div><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Calibri',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:400;line-height:112%">The Company has provided an illustrative example of the disclosure and reconciliation below, as if included in the Company&#8217;s Form&#160;10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2023. The Company plans to incorporate similar disclosures in future filings </font></div><div style="height:72pt;position:relative;width:100%"><div style="bottom:0;position:absolute;width:100%"><div><font><br></font></div></div></div><hr style="page-break-after:always"><div style="min-height:36pt;width:100%"><div><font><br></font></div></div><div><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Calibri',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:400;line-height:112%">beginning with its Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ending September 30, 2024. In addition, the Company&#8217;s utility subsidiaries, Wisconsin Electric Power Company and Wisconsin Public Service Corporation, will provide substantially the same disclosure in future filings beginning with their Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q for the quarter ending September 30, 2024.</font></div><div><font><br></font></div><div><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Calibri',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">The Company proposes including the following updated disclosures within &#34;Results of Operations.&#34; </font></div><div><font><br></font></div><div><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Calibri',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:700;line-height:120%">Non-GAAP Financial Measures</font></div><div><font><br></font></div><div><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Calibri',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">The discussions below address the contribution of each of our utility segments to net income attributed to common shareholders. The discussions include financial information prepared in accordance with GAAP, as well as utility margin, which is not a measure of financial performance under GAAP. Utility margin (operating revenues less fuel and purchased power costs and cost of natural gas sold) is a non-GAAP financial measure because it excludes certain operation and maintenance expenses applicable to revenues, as well as depreciation and amortization and property and revenue taxes. </font></div><div><font><br></font></div><div><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Calibri',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">We believe that utility margin provides a useful basis for evaluating utility operations since the majority of prudently incurred fuel and purchased power costs, as well as prudently incurred natural gas costs, are passed through to customers in current rates. As a result, management uses utility margin internally when assessing the operating performance of our utility segments as these measures exclude the majority of revenue fluctuations caused by changes in these expenses. Similarly, the presentation of utility margin herein is intended to provide supplemental information for investors regarding our operating performance. </font></div><div><font><br></font></div><div><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Calibri',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">Our utility margin may not be comparable to similar measures presented by other companies. Furthermore, this measure is not intended to replace gross margin as determined in accordance with GAAP as an indicator of operating performance.&#160;Each of our three utility segment discussions below include a table that provides the calculation of both gross margin as determined in accordance with GAAP and utility margin, as well as a reconciliation between the two measures.</font></div><div><font><br></font></div><div><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Calibri',sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:700;line-height:120%">Wisconsin Segment Contribution to Net Income Attributed to Common Shareholders</font></div><div style="margin-top:5pt"><table style="border-collapse:collapse;display:inline-table;margin-bottom:5pt;vertical-align:text-bottom;width:100.000%"><tr><td style="width:1.0%"></td><td style="width:52.233%"></td><td style="width:0.1%"></td><td style="width:0.1%"></td><td style="width:0.494%"></td><td style="width:0.1%"></td><td style="width:1.0%"></td><td style="width:13.761%"></td><td style="width:0.1%"></td><td style="width:0.1%"></td><td style="width:0.494%"></td><td style="width:0.1%"></td><td style="width:1.0%"></td><td style="width:13.761%"></td><td style="width:0.1%"></td><td colspan="3" style="display:none"></td><td colspan="3" style="display:none"></td><td style="width:0.1%"></td><td style="width:0.494%"></td><td style="width:0.1%"></td><td style="width:1.0%"></td><td style="width:13.763%"></td><td style="width:0.1%"></td><td colspan="3" style="display:none"></td><td colspan="3" style="display:none"></td></tr><tr><td colspan="3" style="padding:0 1pt"></td><td colspan="3" style="padding:0 1pt"></td><td colspan="15" style="padding:2px 1pt;text-align:center;vertical-align:bottom"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Calibri',sans-serif;font-size:9pt;font-weight:700;line-height:100%">Year Ended December 31</font></td><td colspan="3" style="display:none"></td><td colspan="3" style="display:none"></td></tr><tr><td colspan="3" style="padding:2px 1pt;text-align:left;vertical-align:bottom"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Calibri',sans-serif;font-size:9pt;font-style:italic;font-weight:700;line-height:100%">(in millions)</font></td><td colspan="3" style="padding:0 1pt"></td><td colspan="3" style="border-top:1pt solid #000;padding:2px 1pt;text-align:center;vertical-align:bottom"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Calibri',sans-serif;font-size:9pt;font-weight:700;line-height:100%">2023</font></td><td colspan="3" style="border-top:1pt solid #000;padding:0 1pt"></td><td colspan="3" style="border-top:1pt solid #000;padding:2px 1pt;text-align:center;vertical-align:bottom"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Calibri',sans-serif;font-size:9pt;font-weight:700;line-height:100%">2022</font></td><td colspan="3" style="display:none"></td><td colspan="3" style="display:none"></td><td colspan="3" style="border-top:1pt solid #000;padding:0 1pt"></td><td colspan="3" style="border-top:1pt solid #000;padding:2px 1pt;text-align:center;vertical-align:bottom"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Calibri',sans-serif;font-size:9pt;font-weight:700;line-height:100%">B (W)</font></td><td colspan="3" style="display:none"></td><td colspan="3" style="display:none"></td></tr><tr><td colspan="3" style="background-color:#cccccc;border-top:1pt solid #000000;padding:2px 1pt;text-align:left;vertical-align:bottom"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Calibri',sans-serif;font-size:9pt;font-weight:700;line-height:100%">Operating revenues</font></td><td colspan="3" style="background-color:#cccccc;padding:0 1pt"></td><td style="background-color:#cccccc;border-top:1pt solid #000000;padding:2px 0 2px 1pt;text-align:left;vertical-align:bottom"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Calibri',sans-serif;font-size:9pt;font-weight:700;line-height:100%">$</font></td><td style="background-color:#cccccc;border-top:1pt solid #000000;padding:2px 0;text-align:right;vertical-align:bottom"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Calibri',sans-serif;font-size:9pt;font-weight:700;line-height:100%">6,625.9</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Calibri',sans-serif;font-size:9pt;font-weight:400;line-height:100%">&#160;</font></td><td style="background-color:#cccccc;border-top:1pt solid #000000;padding:2px 1pt 2px 0;text-align:right;vertical-align:bottom"></td><td colspan="3" style="background-color:#cccccc;padding:0 1pt"></td><td style="background-color:#cccccc;border-top:1pt solid #000000;padding:2px 0 2px 1pt;text-align:left;vertical-align:bottom"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Calibri',sans-serif;font-size:9pt;font-weight:400;line-height:100%">$</font></td><td style="background-color:#cccccc;border-top:1pt solid #000000;padding:2px 0;text-align:right;vertical-align:bottom"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Calibri',sans-serif;font-size:9pt;font-weight:400;line-height:100%">6,960.5&#160;</font></td><td style="background-color:#cccccc;border-top:1pt solid 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style="background-color:#ffffff;padding:0 1pt"></td><td colspan="3" style="background-color:#ffffff;padding:0 1pt"></td><td colspan="3" style="background-color:#ffffff;padding:0 1pt"></td><td colspan="3" style="background-color:#ffffff;padding:0 1pt"></td><td colspan="3" style="background-color:#ffffff;padding:0 1pt"></td><td colspan="3" style="display:none"></td><td colspan="3" style="display:none"></td><td colspan="3" style="background-color:#ffffff;padding:0 1pt"></td><td colspan="3" style="background-color:#ffffff;padding:0 1pt"></td><td colspan="3" style="display:none"></td><td colspan="3" style="display:none"></td></tr><tr><td colspan="3" style="background-color:#cccccc;padding:2px 1pt;text-align:left;vertical-align:bottom"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Calibri',sans-serif;font-size:9pt;font-weight:700;line-height:100%">Operating expenses</font></td><td colspan="3" style="background-color:#cccccc;padding:0 1pt"></td><td colspan="3" 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style="bottom:0;position:absolute;width:100%"><div><font><br></font></div></div></div><hr style="page-break-after:always"><div style="min-height:36pt;width:100%"><div><font><br></font></div></div><div><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Calibri',sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-style:italic;font-weight:700;line-height:120%">Gross Margin GAAP and Utility Margin Non-GAAP</font></div><div><font><br></font></div><div><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Calibri',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">The following table summarizes our Illinois segment gross margin (GAAP) and reconciles gross margin (GAAP) to utility margin (non-GAAP). 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As measured by heating degree days, 2023 was 14.7% and 13.1% warmer than 2022 at MERC and MGU, respectively.</font></div><div><font><br></font></div><div style="height:72pt;position:relative;width:100%"><div style="bottom:0;position:absolute;width:100%"><div><font><br></font></div></div></div><hr style="page-break-after:always"><div style="min-height:36pt;width:100%"><div><font><br></font></div></div><div><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Calibri',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:700;line-height:120%">Additionally, the smaller increase in gross margin (GAAP) as compared to the increase in utility margin (non-GAAP), was driven by the following items&#58;</font></div><div><font><br></font></div><div style="padding-left:13.5pt;text-indent:-13.5pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Calibri',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-style:italic;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">&#8226;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Calibri',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;padding-left:8.52pt">A $2.4 million increase in depreciation and amortization&#59; partially offset by</font></div><div><font><br></font></div><div style="padding-left:13.5pt;text-indent:-13.5pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Calibri',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">&#8226;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Calibri',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;padding-left:8.52pt">A $1.8 million decrease in natural gas operations and customer service expense.</font></div><div><font><br></font></div><div><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Calibri',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">If you have any questions regarding our responses or need additional information to facilitate your review, please do not hesitate to call our Vice President and Controller, William J. Guc at (414) 221-5093 or our Vice President and Deputy General Counsel, Joshua M. Erickson at (414) 221-2544.</font></div><div><font><br></font></div><div><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Calibri',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">Sincerely,</font></div><div><font><br></font></div><div><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Calibri',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:400;line-height:115%">&#47;s&#47; Xia Liu</font></div><div><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Calibri',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">_____________________________</font></div><div><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Calibri',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">Xia Liu</font></div><div><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Calibri',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer</font></div><div><font><br></font></div><div><font><br></font></div><div><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Calibri',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">cc&#58;     Myra Moosariparambil, Securities and Exchange Commission</font></div><div style="padding-left:36pt;text-indent:-22.5pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Calibri',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">    Craig Arakawa, Securities and Exchange Commission</font></div><div><font><br></font></div><div style="height:72pt;position:relative;width:100%"><div style="bottom:0;position:absolute;width:100%"><div><font><br></font></div></div></div></body></html>
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