IPLDP vs PEG

Interstate Power and Light Company

Interstate Power and Light Company, a public utility company, generates and distributes electricity, and distributes and transports natural gas to retail customers in Iowa. The company operates through three segments: Electric Operations, Gas Operations, and Other. It generates electricity from coal, natural gas, and wind energy; and purchases electricity from wholesale energy markets. The company also sells electricity to wholesale customers, including municipalities and rural electric cooperatives in Minnesota, Illinois, and Iowa. In addition, it generates and distributes steam for customers in Cedar Rapids, Iowa; and owns overhead electric distribution lines, underground electric distribution cables, and substation distribution transformers, as well as gas mains in Iowa. The company provides utility services to incorporated communities. It offers electric utility services to retail customers in various industries, such as farming, agriculture, industrial manufacturing, chemical, packaging, and food industries, as well as gas utility services for various industries comprising research, education, hospitality, manufacturing, and chemicals. As of December 31, 2020, it supplied electric service to approximately 495,000 retail customers and natural gas service to approximately 225,000 retail customers. The company was formerly known as Iowa Railway and Light Corporation. The company was incorporated in 1925 and is based in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Interstate Power and Light Company is a subsidiary of Alliant Energy Corporation.

Public Service Enterprise Group Incorporated

Public Service Enterprise Group Incorporated, through its subsidiaries, operates as an energy company primarily in the Northeastern and Mid-Atlantic United States. It operates through two segments, PSE&G and PSEG Power. The PSE&G segment transmits electricity; distributes electricity and gas to residential, commercial, and industrial customers, as well as invests in solar generation projects, and energy efficiency and related programs; and offers appliance services and repairs. As of December 31, 2020, it had electric transmission and distribution system of 25,000 circuit miles and 860,000 poles; 54 switching stations with an installed capacity of 38,353 megavolt-amperes (MVA), and 245 substations with an installed capacity of 8,647 MVA; four electric distribution headquarters and five electric sub-headquarters; and 18,000 miles of gas mains, 12 gas distribution headquarters, two sub-headquarters, and one meter shop, as well as 58 natural gas metering and regulating stations. The Power segment operates nuclear, gas, oil-fired, and renewable generation assets. It has total generating output was approximately 52,900 gigawatts hours; and owns and operates 467 MW direct current of photovoltaic solar generation facilities. Public Service Enterprise Group Incorporated was incorporated in 1985 and is based in Newark, New Jersey.