Articles Tagged: Energy Industry

Led by solar energy, renewables are poised to overtake coal as the largest source of electricity generation worldwide by early 2025, helping to keep alive the global goal of limiting Earth's warming to 2.7 degrees Fahrenheit, according to the Paris-based agency's latest forecasts.

State and local agencies report an increase in demand for heating and energy assistance in recent years, and they’re bracing for what are expected to be the highest heating costs households have seen in 25 years.

A shortage of diesel fuel leaves a large swath of the nation bracing for a challenging winter.

Iowa generates more than half of its electricity with wind, but clean energy advocates say the state and nation can do even more

Iowa’s energy cross-crosses across an enormous power grid before it turns on your lights.

Out-of-state solar panel installers are publishing advertisements riddled with misleading information regarding Iowa’s solar tax credit and charging thousands of dollars to customers who are seeing no change in their electrical bills.

Quad Cities’ plant opened 2 years before Duane Arnold, narrowly avoided shutdown in 2018

The state will receive an extra $5.3 million to help lower Iowans’ home energy bills this summer

ITC Midwest and other developers of a $492 million transmission line are appealing a federal judge's ruling that blocks the project's crossing through the Upper Mississippi River National Wildlife Refuge.

North Dakota’s biggest oil driller said Wednesday it will commit $250 million to help fund a proposed pipeline that would gather carbon dioxide produced by ethanol plants in Iowa and across the Midwest and pump it thousands of feet underground for permanent storage.

NextEra, which will build the project at the decommissioned Duane Arnold nuclear facility and plans to sell it to Alliant Energy to own and operate, submitted the plans to Linn County for the two solar energy sites in Palo.

Des Moines-based MidAmerican Energy plans a $3.9 billion project in Iowa it said would add 2,042 megawatts of wind generation and 50 megawatts of solar generation

General Electric will split into three separate companies in a stunning breakup of the iconic manufacturer founded by Thomas Edison whose sprawling businesses once made it the world’s most valuable company.

Alliant Energy and Iowa State University said Thursday they plan to build a solar farm on university land south of Ames.

American utility companies, including those in Iowa, are facing increasing pressure to slash greenhouse gas emissions in hopes of preventing the worst effects of global climate change.