Dane County officials announced a deal with Alliant Energy on Thursday to build a 16.5-megawatt solar farm that would help provide all the energy the county uses every year.
Wisconsin-based Alliant Energy announced Thursday it will close its coal-fired power plant in the northeast Iowa city of Lansing over the next two years.
Alliant Energy is moving ahead with plans to build 675 megawatts of solar power with six projects, an announcement that came just days after the utility said it will retire the Edgewater coal plant in Sheboygan.
Alliant Energy on Thursday announced plans to develop 1,000 megawatts of solar power in Wisconsin by the end of 2023, a move that comes on the heels of other large solar projects and would represent a major expansion of the state's solar capacity.
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PROJECT NAME: West Riverside Energy Center ADDRESS: 1401 W B R Townline Road, Town of Beloit SIZE: 315-acre, 730-megawatt, natural-gas-fired generating station COST: $700 million START OF CONSTRUCTION: fall of 2016 ESTIMATED TIME OF COMPLETION: By end of 2019 OWNER: ...
A Wisconsin utility has shut down one of its largest coal-fired generators as it makes progress on the construction of a $700 million natural-gas plant.