EX-24

	Exhibit 24

	INTERSTATE POWER COMPANY
	POWER OF ATTORNEY


Each of the undersigned directors and officers of INTERSTATE POWER 
COMPANY, a Delaware corporation, hereinafter referred to as the 
"Company", which intends to file with the Securities and Exchange 
Commission, Washington, D.C., under the provisions of the 
Securities Act of 1933, as amended, a Post-Effective Amendment 
Registration Statement 33-62644 relating to the balance of 500,000 
shares of Common Stock of the par value of $3.50 per share 
registered pursuing to such Registration Statement to be sold to 
common stockholders, employees and residential and farm customers 
pursuant to the Company=s Dividend Reinvestment and Stock Purchase 
Plan, DOES HEREBY APPOINT W. H. STOPPELMOOR, J. C. MC GOWAN, C. F. 
SPRINGER, JR., AND W. D. CARSTEDT, his true and lawful attorneys, 
and each of them his true and lawful attorney, with power to act 
without the others and with full power of substitution and 
resubstitution, for him and in his name, place and stead, to sign 
in the capacity of a director and/or officer of the Company and 
file said Post-Effective Amendment to such Registration Statement 
and any and all amendments thereto, including any additional Post-
Effective Amendments and Amendments to such Post-Effective 
Amendments to such Registration Statement, and all instruments 
necessary or incidental in connection therewith, hereby granting 
unto said attorneys and each of them full power and authority to 
do and perform in the name and on behalf of each of the 
undersigned, and in any and all capacities, each act and thing 
whatsoever requisite or necessary to be done in and about the 
premises, as fully and to all intents and purposes as each of the 
undersigned might or could do in person, hereby ratifying and 
approving the act of said attorneys and each of them.

	IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned have hereunto set
	their hands and seals this 19th day November, 1996


/s/ W. H. Stoppelmoor	(L.S.)

/s/ James E. Byrns	(L.S.)

/s/ R. R. Ewers	(L.S.)

/s/ Alan B. Arends	(L.S.)

/s/ D. E. Hamill	(L.S.)

/s/ Joyce L. Hanes	(L.S.)

/s/ W. C. Troy	(L.S.)

/s/ Gerald L. Kopischke	(L.S.)

/s/ D. D. Jannette	(L.S.)

/s/ A. D. Cordes	(L.S.)

/s/ J. C. McGowan	(L.S.)

/s/ Dale R. Sharp	(L.S.)

/s/ Ray P. Richards	(L.S.)

/s/ Michael R. Chase	(L.S.)