Articles Tagged: Alliant Energy

Google data center would be among Cedar Rapids’ largest water and energy users, Cedar Rapids City Council advances Higley Mansion rezoning, Local farmers’ markets getting underway

As Google considers whether to build a $576 million data center near the Eastern Iowa Airport, residents wonder how much water and energy a data center would use and whether the project would raise residents’ rates or deplete public water supply during a drought.

The Iowa Economic Development Authority board on Friday signed off on Cedar Rapids’ $56 million, 20-year local tax break to support Google’s $576 million data center in Cedar Rapids’ Big Cedar Industrial Center.

In awarding city financial incentives to an unnamed company to build a $576 million data center in the Big Cedar Industrial Center, members of the Cedar Rapids City Council lauded the project -- the city’s largest ever -- as a “historic” milestone for Cedar Rapids.

May Farlinger to succeed Terry Kouba, who is retiring

The 4.5-megawatt garden is Alliant Energy’s largest operational solar project to date in Iowa

A Brown University analysis sifted through 23,000 lobbying records to track groups’ roles in shaping legislation, their success and their relationships to each other.

Higher rates would exacerbate energy burdens on low-income residents, the Clean Energy Districts of Iowa argues.

The Alliant Energy Foundation has announced it will be donating $515,000 to seven food banks across Iowa and Wisconsin. It was the most annual Drive Out Hunger fundraiser has earned in the 17 years it has been hosted.

Current CEO John Larsen to become chairman of board

Alliant is evaluating next steps after clearing initial hurdle

The collaboration between Iowa State University and Alliant Energy is the first utility-scale agrivoltaics project in the Midwest

If approved by the Iowa Utilities Board, the higher rates would start going into effect in October 2024

Second implosion planned for the facility’s remaining structure this fall

A Linn County committee compared emissions between 2010 and 2019 to track progress.