States want proof they’ll get built due to concern that regular ratepayers could be stuck with the bill to build unnecessary power plants.
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States want proof they’ll get built due to concern that regular ratepayers could be stuck with the bill to build unnecessary power plants.
New analysis of consumer data a warning sign for the U.S. economy and another political headache for President Donald Trump.
With the help of a $250,000 planning grant, the Iowa Energy Fund intends to turn Cedar Rapids into its “development grounds” to learn more about effective public-private pathways toward green energy implementation.
Turbines are built with ‘the end in mind,’ expert says
The Iowa Utilities Commission will hold a public information meeting about the proposed restart of the Duane Arnold nuclear plant at 6 p.m. Nov. 13 at the Hawkeye Downs Expo Center in Cedar Rapids.
After years of complaints, lawsuits and legislation against similar efforts, the Tallgrass Trailblazer Pipeline began operating in September with virtually no opposition.
The new amount is roughly half the $667 million that a jury had awarded to the pipeline company that brought the claims in connection with protests of an oil pipeline nearly a decade ago.
The deal will support construction of large-scale reactors from Westinghouse Electric Co.
Tech giant Google plans to purchase energy from the Duane Arnold Energy Center as part of a larger 25-year agreement with the nuclear plant’s owner, NextEra energy.
A sustainable aviation fuel developer plans to shift its immediate investment from South Dakota to North Dakota, in part because of delays in the development of a multi-state pipeline by Iowa-based Summit Carbon Solutions.
The number of clean energy jobs in Iowa reached a record high in 2024, with more than 33,000 Iowans holding jobs in the clean energy space, surpassing the state’s previous record of 31,910 jobs in 2019.
Despite Alliant Energy’s announcement that it is “deprioritizing” a site in Fairfax that had been proposed for construction of a new gas-fired power plant, city officials and residents in the small Linn County town haven’t stopped debating the issue.
Alliant Energy will start construction on a new power plant in Cedar Rapids — called the Cedar River Generating Station and sited within the boundary of Alliant’s Prairie Creek Generating Station — next year, aiming to have the plant fully operational by mid-2027.
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