WEC Energy Group, Inc. (WEC)

Wisconsin and Illinois utility with service company. Read October 19, 2026 from the annual report for the period ending December 31, 2025, filed February 20, 2026. Ranked 8 of the 30 Utilities companies read so far, by the share within reach now.

A utility whose filing counts 7,151 employees by subsidiary with 1,269 at its service company, so electric power leads, the gas utilities follow and the counted service company takes management of companies.

The figures on this page come from the company's own annual report and from BLS staffing patterns for its industries, never from a roster. They are estimates with a stated method. Nothing here says what the company will do: within reach is not a forecast of jobs lost or of savings.

What follows from the reading

Share of working time within reach of AI, on the long-run pace at four in five: 23% now, 38% at the end of 2027, 46% at the end of 2028, 49% at the end of 2030. By the patterns, the work is about 49% desk work, 17% people work and 35% body work. These are the site's industry estimates weighted by the shares below: estimates with a stated method and range, not a forecast of what the company will do. By the same patterns, at the end of 2028 about 46% of the working time stays with people (conversation, in-person and hands-on work), 43% becomes checking a model's work and 7% could be handed over with lighter checks, from the industries' own figures, not the company's roles.

Headcount

7,151 employees as of December 31, 2025 (stated). The filing describes only Wisconsin, Illinois, Minnesota and Michigan utilities, so the U.S. share is recorded as 1 with a flag; no count by country is stated.

The filing: “As of December 31, 2025, we had the following number of employees, including those represented under union agreements: WE 2,565; WPS 1,220; WG 398; PGL 1,199; NSG 156; MERC 200; MGU 144; WBS 1,269; total employees 7,151, union employees 4,190.”

The workforce as industry patterns

What the filing says about the workforce: 7,151 employees as of December 31, 2025 (7,017 a year earlier), 4,190 of them union: WE 2,565 (1,963 union), WPS 1,220 (876), WG 398 (279), PGL 1,199 (819), NSG 156 (119), MERC 200 (37), MGU 144 (97), WBS 1,269 (none); unions across Wisconsin, Illinois, Minnesota and Michigan; nine business resource groups.

Companies read with the same leading pattern

Other companies whose largest staffing pattern is also Electric Power Generation, Transmission and Distribution, largest first, each read from its own annual report. Within reach now and at the end of 2028, long-run pace, four in five.

• The Southern Company (SO, 29,800 employees)22% now, 45% by 2028
• PG&E Corporation (PCG, 29,010 employees)21% now, 42% by 2028
• Duke Energy Corporation (DUK, 26,441 employees)21% now, 41% by 2028
• Exelon Corporation (EXC, 20,571 employees)22% now, 45% by 2028
• American Electric Power Company, Inc. (AEP, 17,581 employees)24% now, 50% by 2028
• NextEra Energy, Inc. (NEE, 17,400 employees)21% now, 41% by 2028
• NRG Energy, Inc. (NRG, 16,702 employees)19% now, 32% by 2028
• Consolidated Edison, Inc. (ED, 15,407 employees)21% now, 42% by 2028

What the filing says about AI

16 sentences in the filing name AI. The filing names the risks of developing and implementing AI among its risk factors and says it is in discussions with a small number of customers to power large-scale data centers being built for AI and other technology.

• “Table of Contents SEC Securities and Exchange Commission USITC United States International Trade Commission WDNR Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources Accounting Terms AFUDC Allowance for Funds Used During Construction ARO Asset Retirement Obligation ASC Accounting Standards Codification ASU Accounting Standards Update CWIP Construction Work in Progress FASB Financial Accounting Standards B...”
• “Table of Contents Advances in technology, and related legislation or regulation supporting the use of that technology, that result in competitive disadvantages and create the potential for impairment of existing assets; Risks involved in developing and implementing AI, including data privacy concerns or other legal liability, new or enhanced governmental or regulatory scrutiny or regulations go...”
• “We are engaged in discussions with a small number of customers to provide power to large-scale data centers being constructed to support AI and other technology capabilities.”
• “This concentration of business with a small number of customers in an industry based on emerging technologies, including AI and machine learning, presents several risks.”
• “Cybersecurity threats, including those leveraging AI, continue to increase, and the security measures and preventative actions we take to reduce the risk of cybersecurity incidents and protect our systems against unauthorized access to secured data and systems may be insufficient to safeguard against all security breaches.”

Its annual reports, year by year

Sentences naming AI in each annual report, counted by one rule, beside the median report in the Index that year. Each count links its filing. Every company, by year and sector

• Fiscal 20210median 0
• Fiscal 20220median 0
• Fiscal 20230median 1
• Fiscal 202412median 4
• Fiscal 202516median 10

Headcount by filing year

As reported in each year's annual report, with the filing. A year marked not read had no figure the reading could take from the report's text.

Limits of this reading

• The U.S. share is recorded as 1 because the filing describes only U.S. utilities; it states no count by country.
• The combined electric and gas utilities' people are split between electric and gas by description (c); the gas-only subsidiaries and the service company are the filing's own counts.

Source: the company's annual report on EDGAR, accession 0000783325-26-000018, the filing. Read by Claude Fable 5.1 under rubric version 1, by the method. A company can write to info@stratussc.com to have its reading checked against its filing.