Boscobel Utilities

Power Supply

Boscobel Municipal Utilities is a member-owner of WPPI Energy, a power company owned by 49 municipalities that operate electric utilities. These community-owned utilities purchase all of their electric requirements from WPPI Energy and supply power to 190,000 homes and businesses throughout Wisconsin.

In the late 1970s, a group of Wisconsin communities served by local municipal electric utilities was facing a series of large, wholesale rate increases. These increases were imposed by investor-owned companies that supplied the local municipalities with electric power. Determined to gain control over their power costs, the communities joined forces in 1980 to form WPPI Energy, the state's first municipal electric company.

WPPI Energy was formed to give member utilities, like Boscobel Utilities, the benefits of power supply independence, increased bargaining power and economies of scale. Through this "joint action" effort WPPI Energy can help its member-owners in the acquisition of electric power and related resources needed to provide their customers with safe, reliable and economic electric power and energy. Through WPPI Energy, municipal utilities are able to acquire power supply expertise and negotiating strength they would lack individually.

A Board of Directors, comprised of one representative from each member community, governs WPPI Energy. An eleven-member executive committee of the Board provides ongoing management oversight of WPPI Energy. Located in Sun Prairie, WPPI Energy employs more than 80 employees who manage and operate WPPI Energy in accordance with the policies and decisions of the Board of Directors and Executive Committee.

Member owners are the communities of Alger Delta MI; Algoma WI; Baraga MI; Black River Falls WI; Boscobel WI; Brodhead WI; Cedarburg WI; Columbus WI; Cuba City WI; Eagle River WI; Evansville WI; Florence WI; Gladstone MI; Hartford WI; Hustisford WI; Independence IA; Jefferson WI; Juneau WI; Kaukauna WI; Lake Mills WI; L'Anse MI; Lodi WI; Maquoketa IA; Menasha WI; Mount Horeb WI; Muscoda WI; Negaunee MI; New Glarus WI; New Holstein WI; New London WI; New Richmond WI; Norway MI; Oconomowoc WI; Oconto Falls WI; Prairie du Sac WI; Plymouth WI; Reedsburg WI; Richland Center WI; River Falls WI; Slinger WI; Stoughton WI; Sturgeon Bay WI; Sun Prairie WI; Two Rivers WI; Waterloo WI; Waunakee WI; Waupun WI; Westby WI; and Whitehall WI.

For more information about Boscobel Municipal Utility's power supply and ownership of WPPI Energy, visit www.wppinergy.org.