The project involves the construction of a gas-fired power plant capable of producing 700 megawatts of energy for Alliant Energy customers. Coupled with a nearby solar field, the project will be able to power more than 535,000 homes.

Tagged with: Alliant Energy Building Blocks Riverside Energy Center

Even as a Wisconsin electrical utility used a yearly report to lay out plans for producing more energy with natural gas and various renewable sources, it was saying its total generating capacity would be increasing by relatively little.

Tagged with: Alliant Energy solar power Wind power

A demolition superintendent has died after being injured in an accident during the demolition of an old Alliant Energy power plant in Beloit.

Tagged with: accident Alliant Energy osha

Alliant Energy Corp. has won preliminary approval from a regulatory panel to build a $700 million natural gas-fired power plant near Beloit.

Tagged with: Alliant Energy

Republicans on the Legislature's powerful budget committee approved a bill Wednesday that would relax portions of Wisconsin's sulfur dioxide regulations and rework utilities' obligations to pay into the state's renewable energy program.

Tagged with: Alliant Energy DNR Madison Gas and Electric renewable energy

Two of the state’s largest utility companies have come to an agreement that will let them present a united front when they argue before state regulators for the construction of a new power plant in southern Wisconsin.

Tagged with: ABC Alliant Energy power plant We Energies

Alliant Energy Corp. has announced its plan to close its coal-fired power plant in Cassville by the end of the year.

Tagged with: Alliant Energy coal

Alliant Energy is studying solar-energy technology in a project outside its Madison headquarters.

Tagged with: Alliant Energy renewable energy solar energy

Amid tepid annual increases in energy use in Wisconsin, Alliant Energy is asking regulators for permission to sink $750 million into building a new power plant near Beloit.

Tagged with: Alliant Energy power plant RENEW Wisconsin We Energies

Madison-based Alliant Energy Corp. says it will ask the state for permission to build a large natural-gas fired plant near Beloit.

Tagged with: Alliant Energy power plant