, a new not-for-profit organization, wants to “take away some of the noise” and talk about how Iowa could benefit financially from projects that would capture CO2 from ethanol plants and use it for industrial purposes or
CO2 pipeline opponents see it as attempt to push landowners to sign agreements
Navigator Heartland Greenway on Thursday announced a deal with electrofuels provider Infinium to provide 600,000 tons of carbon dioxide a year from ethanol plants connected to Navigator’s proposed pipeline.
A new inventory maps which sectors decreased — or increased — their contributions to climate change.
But Alliant Energy didn’t get everything it asked for in its application.
The Iowa Supreme Court has reversed a lower court’s decision and sent a case back to the Iowa Utilities Board over approving an environmental plan that did not consider retiring coal-fired power plants.
Three of Iowa’s largest metro areas -- Des Moines, Cedar Rapids and Iowa City -- will seek $1 million each in federal climate change planning money available because the state declined the funds.
Three Iowa energy projects -- and their communities -- stand to benefit from a proposed green hydrogen hub seeking $1 billion in federal money.
The proposed Mid-Continent Clean Hydrogen Hub (MCH2) would be competing with other regional proposals for $7 billion available to establish six to 10 green hydrogen hubs as part of the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act.
Numbers of interested customers have increased between 10 percent and 100 percent, depending on the company.
Utility disconnections may have began as soon as last Monday. But there are options for continued financial help.
CapCO2 plans to have a pilot project by this summer to test a system that would capture CO2 from ethanol plants, combine it with hydrogen and turn it into green methanol -- a highly-sought renewable fuel.
An attorney for Wolf Carbon Solutions told state regulators on Tuesday that it’s unclear whether the company is on track to start construction of its proposed carbon dioxide pipeline through Eastern Iowa in the second quarter of 2024, as it had initially planned.
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