A letter sent by Madison Gas and Electric Co. to state utility regulators has renewable-energy advocates worried that territorial disputes might eclipse the expansion of solar energy in Wisconsin.

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Most people in Wisconsin don’t know the Labor and Industry Review Commission even exists, unless or until it makes decisions affecting their lives.

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Wisconsin utilities have agreed to spend more than $1 billion to clean up aging coal-fired power plants under a settlement with federal regulators announced Monday.

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Interstate Power and Light Co. has filed paperwork for regulatory approval for a new natural-gas fired power plant in Marshalltown.

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Alliant Energy said it would spend as much as $430 million to reduce emissions at its coal-fired plant in Sheboygan.

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Power plant equipment maker Babcock & Wilcox Co. said on Monday that it has gotten a $150 million contract to design, supply, and build environmental equipment for a coal-fired power plant in Pardeeville, Wis.

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The Public Service Commission has cleared Wisconsin Power & Light to purchase the Riverside Energy Center power plant in the town of Beloit for $393 million.

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ANAMOSA, Iowa (AP) — Divers have been called in to repair a washout on a dam in Anamosa caused by flooding on the Wapsipinicon River in 2008. The dam, which generates electricity for Alliant Energy, is owned by North American ...

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By Marie Rohde Gundersen Lutheran Health Care System in La Crosse won initial approval for a $10 million Minnesota wind farm, the latest step toward energy independence by 2014. The project will be on a private farm near Lewiston, Minn. ...

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MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A utility consumers group has filed a lawsuit against state regulators challenging a June decision to permit Wisconsin Power & Light to give industrial customers discounts on electric rates. The Citizens Utility Board complains the discounts ...

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