An industry leader for customers

In 2008, MGE had the highest residential green pricing participation rate of any investor-owned utility in the country. About 10% of our residential customers now purchase clean wind and solar energy through our innovative program.

We also provide highly dependable energy for customers. MGE was rated No. 1 in the country for electric service reliability in a 2007 national utility survey. Our electric service reliability ranked among the top 10 utilities in the country for the five years ended in 2007. MGE pays diligent attention to maintaining excellent gas and electric distribution systems.

Cleaner environment

In response to our customers, we chose to increase our wind resource capacity by 12 times in 2008. Our wind energy capacity grew from 11 to 137 MW. In 2009, renewable energy is expected to account for more than 12% of MGE's total energy supply, up dramatically from 1.6% in 2007.

This increased wind capacity comes from our new 30-MW wind farm in northern Iowa and wind power purchases from two other new Iowa wind projects and one new wind farm in Wisconsin.

We also know that many customers and shareholders are concerned about global climate change and carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions. In 2008, we partnered with others to launch a new Web site, CO2gether.org, which gives customers the knowledge they need to reduce their energy use and CO2 emissions. This one-stop Web site allows people to calculate the CO2 impacts of their energy and transportation use, track their actions and share their results with others.