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Purchase will replace output obtained from purchased power agreement with RockGen Facility MADISON, Wis., April 11 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Wisconsin Power and Light Company (WPL), a subsidiary of Alliant Energy Corporation (NYSE:LNT) , has received approval from the Public Service Commission of Wisconsin to purchase the Neenah Generating Facility, an existing 300 megawatt, simple cycle, natural gas-fired electric generating facility...

MADISON, Wis., April 11 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Madison Media Institute | College of Media Arts (MMI) in Madison, Wisconsin, is thrilled to announce that four of their students, along with Video and Motion Graphics Department Chairperson, Nella Citino, will be handling all the on screen production of the Career College Association (CCA) Convention June 25-27, 2008 at Mandalay Bay Resort...

consecutive quarter of common stock dividend payouts MADISON, Wis., April 11 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Alliant Energy Corporation (NYSE:LNT) announced today that quarterly dividends on common stock were declared by the Board of Directors. (Logo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20020405/LNTLOGO) The common stock dividend is $0.3500 per share payable May 15, 2008, to shareowners of record on April 30, 2008. Dividends on common stock have been paid for...

MILWAUKEE, April 11 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- MGIC Investment Corporation (NYSE:MTG) has announced plans to release its 1st quarter 2008 financial results before the market opens on Thursday, April 17, 2008. A conference call/webcast has been scheduled for 10:00 a.m. Eastern Time to allow securities analysts and shareholders the opportunity to hear Management discuss the Company's results for the quarter ended...

By Brian E. Clark WisBusiness.com WATERLOO – For more than two decades, the Crave brothers -- Charlie, George, Thomas and Mark -- had mulled over installing an anaerobic digester to turn the methane from their cows’ plentiful manure into electricity. But until their herd numbered 900, the finances never quite penciled out for the dairy, which is known for...

By Gregg Hoffmann You won’t likely see any turbines off the west coast of Wisconsin in the near future, but downstream in the Mississippi River a project is being considered for electricity-generating turbines. The experimental technology seems worth exploring and definitely could have a positive impact on energy for the Midwest. Free Flow Power Corp., a New England based startup company ...

From WisBusiness.com ... -- Mark Bugher, director of Madison’s University Research Park, will be the special guest at today’s monthly WisBusiness.com-Madison Magazine business luncheon at the Madison Club. Bugher became the director of University Research Park in the fall of 1999. He manages and directs all activities for the enterprise, a 515-acre research park owned and operated by...

MADISON - The 2008 International Bioethics Forum, to be held April 17-18 at Promega Corporation's BioPharmaceutical Technology Center (BTC) in Fitchburg, will delve into the science and controversies of evolution in the 21st Century.Speakers include a prominent lineup of biologists, paleontologists, historians of science and experts on policy and education.Evolution, the process of change over time in the heritable...