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.
Articles Tagged: Energy Industry
News Nov. 25, 2022 6:00 am124d ago
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.
Washington Post
Business News Nov. 10, 2022 2:32 pm137d ago
A shortage of diesel fuel leaves a large swath of the nation bracing for a challenging winter.
Energy Sep. 28, 2022 6:00 pm180d ago
Iowa generates more than half of its electricity with wind, but clean energy advocates say the state and nation can do even more
Energy Dec. 1, 2022 8:24 am117d ago
Iowa’s energy cross-crosses across an enormous power grid before it turns on your lights.
By Kate Kealey, - Iowa Capital Dispatch
Business News Jul. 14, 2022 4:59 pm256d ago
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.
History May. 31, 2022 6:00 am304d ago
Quad Cities’ plant opened 2 years before Duane Arnold, narrowly avoided shutdown in 2018
State Government Apr. 21, 2022 2:30 pm340d ago
The state will receive an extra $5.3 million to help lower Iowans’ home energy bills this summer
Associated Press
Business News Mar. 23, 2022 3:19 pm369d ago
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.
Associated Press
Business News Mar. 2, 2022 12:09 pm391d ago
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.
Energy Feb. 28, 2022 8:55 am393d ago
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.
The Gazette
Business News Jan. 20, 2022 9:30 am432d ago
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
Bloomberg News
Business News Nov. 9, 2021 1:55 pm503d ago
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.
The Gazette
Business News Nov. 4, 2021 12:21 pm509d ago
Alliant Energy and Iowa State University said Thursday they plan to build a solar farm on university land south of Ames.
Iowa Ideas Sep. 21, 2021 11:05 am553d ago
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.