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ALLIANT ENERGY, is an energy-services provider with subsidiaries serving three million customers. Providing regulated utility services to Midwest customers is the company's focus, in addition to the international energy market and non-regulated domestic generation. Alliant Energy, headquartered in Madison, Wisconsin, is traded on the New York Stock Exchange under "LNT."
The company's Midwest utility service territory covers more than 54,000 square miles in parts of Iowa, Illinois, Wisconsin, and Minnesota.
Media Contact
24-hour media relations staff access
In Iowa:
Phone: (319) 786-4040
In Wisconsin:
Phone: (608) 458-4040
E-mail: news@alliantenergy.com
AMERICAN TRANSMISSION COMPANY, LLC, headquartered in Pewaukee, Wisconsin, is the country’s first multi-state, transmission-only company. ATC, with $1.3 billion in assets, owns, operates, plans, monitors, and maintains approximately 8,900 miles of transmission lines and 460 substations throughout portions of Wisconsin, Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, and Illinois.
ATC has two system control centers, one at the Pewaukee corporate headquarters and one in Cottage Grove, Wisconsin. The company, of more than 400 employees, also has offices in DePere, Madison, and Wausau, Wisconsin, Kingsford, Michigan, and Washington, DC.
ATC provides non-discriminatory service to all customers, supporting effective competition in energy markets without favoring any market participant. Regulated by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission for all rate terms and conditions of service, ATC is a member of the Midwest ISO regional transmission organization.
General inquiries may be directed to:
Phone: (262) 506-6700
Media Contact
Ann Spaltholz, Director of Corporate Communications
Phone: (262) 506-6933
CITY GAS was organized on May 1, 1909 as the Antigo Gas Company and renamed the City Gas Company in 1914. The privately owned utility has approximately 4,500 customers and serves an area of over 150 square miles with 220 miles of gas mains.
Prior to 1949 City Gas Company manufactured gas from Coke. In 1950, the company switched to propane air and connected to ANR Pipeline's system in 1960.
The company employs 21 full time employees.
Media Contact
809 Fifth Avenue
P.O. Box 370
Antigo, WI 54409-0370
Phone: (715) 627-4351
FAX: (715) 623-2099
MADISON GAS & ELECTRIC's roots in the Madison area date back more than 150 years as a community energy company. MGE generates and distributes electricity to the Madison area and purchases and distributes natural gas to seven south-central and western Wisconsin counties. MGE also has a successful green power program with two wind farms, multiple solar installations and biogas. The company has approximately 700 employees.
MGE is the main subsidiary of MGE Energy, a public utility holding company, which is traded on NASDAQ (ticker MGEE).
Madison Gas and Electric
P.O. Box 1231
Madison, WI 53701-1231
Phone: (608) 252-7000
Media Contact
Visit: www.mge.com/newsroom/
SUPERIOR WATER, LIGHT AND POWER COMPANY is a wholly owned subsidiary of ALLETE that sells electricity, water and natural gas in Superior, Wisconsin, and in adjacent areas. Superior is just southeast of Duluth, Minnesota, across the St. Louis River. Superior Water, Light & Power (SWL&P) sells electricity and natural gas and provides water service in northwestern Wisconsin. SWL&P has 14,000 electric customers, 12,000 natural gas customers and 10,000 water customers.
Main Office:
2915 Hill Ave.
Superior, WI 54880
Phone: (715) 394-2200
WISCONSIN PUBLIC SERVICE CORPORATION is engaged in the production, transmission, distribution, and sale of electricity and in the purchase, distribution, and sale of gas in an 11,000-square-mile area in northeastern Wisconsin and part of Upper Michigan. The utility was originally incorporated as Oshkosh Gas Light Company on July 17, 1883. Its name was changed to Wisconsin Public Service Corporation on September 20, 1922. It has 2,400 employees.
Media Contact
Matt Cullen, Media Relations
Media Hotline: 800-977-2250
FAX: (920) 433-5741
WISCONSIN ENERGY CORPORATION (NYSE: WEC), based in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, U.S.A., is a Fortune 500 energy company serving more than 1.1 million electric customers in Wisconsin and Michigan’s Upper Peninsula and more than one million natural gas customers in Wisconsin. The company’s principal utilities are We Energies (the trade name for WE Energies and Wisconsin Gas LLC) and Edison Sault Electric Company. The company’s nonutility businesses include energy development, recycling and renewable energy, and real estate development. One of the Midwest’s premier energy companies, WEC has approximately 5,600 employees, about 58,000 registered stockholders and more than $9 billion of assets. Of the 116,985,822 million shares outstanding as of Dec. 31, 2004, about 60 percent were held by institutional investors and 40 percent by individual stockholders.
In addition to its electric and natural gas customers, We Energies serves approximately 460 steam customers in the Milwaukee metropolitan area, and about 2,660 water customers in suburban Milwaukee. As of Dec. 31, 2004, Edison Sault Electric Company served approximately 23,000 electric customers in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan.
WE Energies is a subsidiary of the WEC Energy Group.
Media Contact
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Media line (414) 221-4444
Brian Manthe, Manager of Media Relations
Cathy Schulze
Amy Jahns
XCEL ENERGY provides the energy that powers millions of homes and businesses across eight Western and Midwestern states including Wisconsin. We are a recognized industry leader in delivering renewable energy and reducing carbon and other emissions, efforts that have put us on a path to a more sustainable energy future. With the company's Wisconsin headquarters in Eau Claire, we provide lower cost renewable energy to more than 240,000 electric customers and 97,000 natural gas customers in northwest Wisconsin.
Media Contact
Chris Ouellette
Phone: (715) 737-2565