Clean energy and environmental advocates say the renewable energy verification process already lacked accountability, and the Iowa Utilities Commission’s proposed changes only make it weaker
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Erin Murphy Energy Aug. 28, 2024 7:42 am5d ago
Clean energy and environmental advocates say the renewable energy verification process already lacked accountability, and the Iowa Utilities Commission’s proposed changes only make it weaker
Caleb McCullough, Gazette-Lee Des Moines Bureau News Jul. 26, 2024 7:40 am38d ago
Groups asking Iowa regulators to reconsider approval of project
By Brooklyn Draisey, - Iowa Capital Dispatch Energy Jul. 15, 2024 4:14 pm49d ago
Linn County Rural Electric Cooperative is one of several partners on the project, which received a $1 million grant from the U.S. Department of Energy.
Erin Jordan Energy Jul. 8, 2024 7:42 am56d ago
The Duane Arnold Solar Project is taking shape as about 250 workers a day install panels on more than 800 acres. Alliant Energy, which will own the 200-megawatt site when complete, said the project will be operational by the end of the year.
Erin Jordan Energy Jul. 3, 2024 2:51 pm61d ago
Google will invest another $1 billion in a Council Bluffs data center and $1.3 million on water quality projects in the Missouri River Basin in southwest Iowa. The tech company still is considering whether to build a data center in Cedar Rapids.
Energy Jun. 27, 2024 7:31 am67d ago
Emergency managers in Linn and Johnson counties said they haven’t heard anything about resuming nuclear power generation at the Duane Arnold Energy Center, near Palo, which would be costly and would require federal authorization.
Energy Jun. 20, 2024 8:58 am74d ago
Linn County Supervisor Kirsten Running-Marquardt believes wind and solar energy are critical to economic development in Iowa. But she also wants to make sure landowners who sign contracts for wind projects aren’t left twisting in the wind.
Caleb McCullough, Gazette-Lee Des Moines Bureau
Energy Jun. 18, 2024 5:37 pm76d ago
Former Republican Iowa Gov. Terry Branstad, who signed a 1983 law requiring utilities to produce a certain amount of their energy from renewable sources, said policymakers should be pursuing an "all of the above" approach to energy production, which includes fossil fuels and renewable sources.
By Brooklyn Draisey - Iowa Capital Dispatch
Higher Ed May. 28, 2024 5:30 am97d ago
One-third of Grinnell College’s campus is now running on renewable energy with a new 9,000-panel solar array, the largest private solar installation in the state.
Energy Apr. 19, 2024 1:46 pm136d ago
This is the third summer the Biden administration has waived the rule, citing the war in Ukraine -- but this time, also uncertainty in the Middle East -- as justification.
By Jared Strong - Iowa Capital Dispatch
Energy Mar. 25, 2024 5:00 am161d ago
State regulators should pause their final deliberations over Summit Carbon Solutions’ pipeline permit so they can review how the company’s recently announced expansion plans will affect it, the influential Iowa Farm Bureau Federation says.
Energy Mar. 14, 2024 10:50 am172d ago
However, an Iowa court decision is temporarily pausing build-out of other transmission projects.
Environmental News Mar. 7, 2024 3:43 pm179d ago
American Transmission Company, ITC Midwest and Dairyland Power Cooperative Inc. want to build a 102-mile, 345-kilovolt line linking Iowa's Dubuque County and Wisconsin's Dane County.
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