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About the Midwest: Business Climate

Industrial Electric Power: Typical Monthly Bill

For industrial firms, power cost is an important factor is site selection. Alliant Energy offers power at costs lower than the average monthly costs for most Midwestern states - which are lower than the national average.

We encourage our customers to take advantage of Alliant Energy's energy efficiency programs to invest in high-efficiency products and lower their energy use.

Provide us with your energy needs and we will provide you with a free energy cost study. Based on the information you supply, we will show you how affordable it is to operate a facility in the Alliant Energy service territory.

National average: $21,501

Alliant Energy service territory

State

Typical Electric
Bill per Month1

Iowa

$13,213

Alliant Energy-Interstate Power & Light
(Northeast Zone, Iowa)2

$13,763

Alliant Energy-Interstate Power & Light
(South Zone, Iowa)2

$13,958

Minnesota

$16,364

Alliant Energy-Interstate Power & Light
(Minn.)2

$15,405

Alliant Energy-Interstate Power & Light
(North Zone, Iowa)2

$15,337

Wisconsin

$19,407

Alliant Energy-Wisconsin Power & Light
(Wis.)2

$21,077



State-by-state comparison

State

Typical Electric
Bill per Month1

Tennessee

$ 11,176

Idaho

$ 12,273

Missouri

$ 12,575

Arkansas

$ 12,791

Oregon

$ 12,981

West Virginia

$ 13,120

Iowa

$ 13,213

Kansas

$ 15,102

Oklahoma

$ 15,121

South Dakota

$ 15,170

Montana

$ 15,242

Hawaii

$ 15,511

Virginia

$ 16,201

Minnesota

$ 16,364

New Jersey

$ 16,409

North Dakota

$ 16,417

Utah

$ 16,487

North Carolina

$ 16,572

Washington

$ 16,594

Kentucky

$ 17,211

Alabama

$ 17,335

South Carolina

$ 17,437

Indiana

$ 17,740

Wyoming

$ 18,301

Louisiana

$ 18,704

Mississippi

$ 18,970

Illinois

$ 19,221

Wisconsin

$ 19,407

Arizona

$ 19,499

Texas

$ 19,533

Michigan

$ 19,703

Colorado

$ 20,344

Florida

$ 20,997

Maryland

$ 21,217

New England

$ 21,512

New Mexico

$ 22,501

Pennsylvania

$ 22,560

Nevada

$ 22,901

California

$ 23,910

Ohio

$ 23,970

Georgia

$ 25,493

New Jersey

$ 25,609

Delaware

$ 26,193

Rhode Island

$ 26,467

Vermont

$ 27,648

New Hampshire

$ 30,311

New York

$ 31,408

District of Columbia

$ 31,578

Massachusetts

$ 35,032

Connecticut

$ 35,547

Maine

$ 39,081

1 General Service Industrial rates in effect on Jan. 1, 2008 for a customer with a 1,000 kW demand and usage of 200,000 kWh per month. Figures are net monthly electric bills based on bundled rates of investor-owned utilities participating in the survey that provide electric service in each respective state.


2 Alliant Energy utility subsidiaries, 2008

1 No data was available for Nebraska.

Source: Typical Bills and Average Rates Report, Winter 2008, Reprinted with the permission of the Edison Electric Institute.