As Florida residents and businesses work to pick up the pieces following Hurricane Irma’s direct blow to their state this weekend, Wisconsin utility companies are sending in workers to help provide some much-needed relief. The assistance comes as a result of ...

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A Madison utility company's key power plant has been out of service since September and is in need of $25 million in repairs.

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The project will add a selective catalytic-reduction system to Columbia Energy Unit 2.

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Alliant Energy Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer Tom Hanson has announced his intent to retire from the company on Dec. 31.

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As Alliant Energy marks the start of work on a new power plant in Beloit, some industry representatives are saying that a decision to let non-union contractors compete for the project produced savings even before shovels hit the ground.

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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.

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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.

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

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

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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.

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