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Utilities at a Glance

Interstate Power and Light Company (IPL) and Wisconsin Power and Light Company (WPL) are Alliant Energy's two utility subsidiaries. Our utilities provide safe, reliable, affordable and environmentally sound electric and natural gas services to approximately one million electric and 400,000 natural gas customers in the upper Midwest.

2007 Statistics

Totals

Maximum peak hour demand (megawatts)

5,751

Number of total electric customers

980,850

Utility electric sales (thousands of megawatt-hours)

32,931

Number of total natural gas customers

410,261

Utility natural gas sold and transported (thousands of dekatherms)

113,750

The utilities own a portfolio of electric generating facilities with a diversified fuel mix including coal, natural gas and renewable resources. The output from these generating facilities is supplemented with purchased power.

In 2007, electric utility operations accounted for 77 percent of total operating revenues and gas utility operations accounted for 20 percent.