Alliant Energy Announces Brazil Arbitration Decision Delayed

Alliant Energy Announces Brazil Arbitration Decision Delayed

		Alliant Energy is the parent company of two public utility companies--Interstate Power and Light Company (IPL) and Wisconsin Power and Light Company (WPL)--and of Alliant Energy Resources, Inc. (AER), the parent company of Alliant Energy's non-regulated operations. (PRNewsFoto) MADISON, WI USA

MADISON, Wis., June 24 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Alliant Energy Corporation (NYSE: LNT), announced today that the International Chamber of Commerce's International Court of Arbitration extended its deadline to issue a decision in the corporation's dispute with Companhia Forca e Luz Cataguazes- Leopoldina, S. A. (Cataguazes) to September 30, 2005. The decision was originally expected to be issued by June 30, 2005. The International Court's Notice of Delay did not state the reason for the extended timeline. (Logo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20020405/LNTLOGO ) Alliant Energy filed the request for arbitration with the International Court of Arbitration to resolve the ongoing dispute with its Brazilian partners. If the arbitral tribunal issues a final decision in favor of Alliant Energy, enforcement of that award would have to be sought in the Brazilian courts. Alliant Energy Corporation is an energy-services provider with subsidiaries serving more than three million customers. Providing its customers in the Midwest with regulated electricity and natural gas service remains the company's primary focus. Alliant Energy's domestic utility subsidiaries, Wisconsin Power and Light and Interstate Power and Light, serve 977,000 electric and 413,000 natural gas customers. Other business platforms include the international energy market and non-regulated domestic generation. Alliant Energy, headquartered in Madison, Wis., is a Fortune 1000 company traded on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol LNT. For more information, visit the company's Web site at http://www.alliantenergy.com .