Alliant Energy News

A woman was taken to the hospital late Thursday night after her car ran into a telephone pole on Johnson Avenue NW and flipped on its side.

Interstate Power and Light Co., a subsidiary of Alliant Energy Corp., filed a request Friday with the Iowa Utilities Board to increase its retail natural gas rates in Iowa by an average of 5.6 percent.

Cedar Rapids, IA, May 25, 2012 - Interstate Power and Light Company , a subsidiary of Alliant Energy Corporation , is filing a request with the Iowa Utilities Board to increase its Iowa retail natural gas rates.

Power company workers and local emergency responders were grappling with a rash of power outages and scattered fires in Rock County as heavy winds this afternoon gusted between 35 to 45 miles per hour, officials said.

Heavy winds are to blame for power outages in southern Wisconsin and a downed tree in the University of Wisconsin Arboretum.

MG&E officials said about 65 people are without power on the east side of Madison, but the numbers are larger to north and west.

Wisconsin Power and Light Company , a subsidiary of Alliant Energy Corporation , announced today that it exercised its option to purchase Riverside Energy Center, LLC, which owns the Riverside Energy Center, from Calpine Corporation .

RMT Incorporated was awarded a contract to build 42 high-tech windmills at the Colorado Highlands facility in Logan County.

Madison, WI and Houston, TX, May 18, 2012 - Wisconsin Power and Light Company , a subsidiary of Alliant Energy Corporation , announced that it exercised its option to purchase Riverside Energy Center, LLC, which owns the Riverside Energy Center, from Calpine Corporation .

Company officials say a small number of customers have reported receiving calls from individuals claiming to be Alliant Energy representatives.

Bob Danner, left, from Alliant Energy presented a $3,000 Alliant Energy Foundation community grant check to Dennis Dieser of the Albert Lea Family Y. The money received from the Alliant Energy Foundation will go to the third grade level Sponsorship for Membership Program.

Trees will be available for sale this Thursday, May 17th between 4:30 and 6:30 pm at Rodgers Park in Vinton Alliant Energy, Iowa DNR Forestry Bureau, and Benton County Conservation Board are partnering to offer high quality landscape trees Alliant customers at a very low cost.

The dividend stock downgrades continued to outpace the upgrades last week when more than 10 dividend-paying stocks were downgraded.

The City of Madison and Dane County will hold their annual home compost bin and rain barrel sale on Saturday May 12th.

The company is primarily engaged in the generation and distribution of electricity.

Alliant Energy Corporation - Nuclear Energy - Deals and Alliances Profile Summary Alliant Energy Corporation is a regulated electric utility and natural gas company.

Local students are helping to make the community more green. Kids from Mason City Alternative High School helped plant three dozen trees throughout the Arthur J. Gerk Arboretum and in Ray Rorick Park in Mason City.

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They currently have a $45.00 target price on the stock, down from their previous target price of $47.00. Shares of Alliant Energy Corpo opened at 43.90 on Monday.

Thank you for holding, ladies and gentlemen, and welcome to Alliant Energy's First Quarter 2012 Earnings Conference Call.