The South Dakota Public Utilities Commission voted 3-0 Thursday to deny Summit Carbon Solution’s request to put its application for a CO2 pipeline on hold. “What’s the plan here? And that’s the question that’s rolling around in my mind,” said Commissioner Chris Nelson.
Alliant Energy is moving forward with its proposed project to store renewable energy in batteries near the company’s retired coal plant in Lansing.
Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds’ proposed energy legislation includes a right of first refusal to incumbent energy companies to build new transmission projects
A federal judge has dismissed the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe’s lawsuit against the Army Corps of Engineers seeking to shutter the Dakota Access Pipeline, which cuts across Iowa.
An Iowa carbon dioxide pipeline company has asked courts to pause or dismiss its pending legal fights against landowners and a state regulator in South Dakota after that state’s adoption of a law that prevents the company from using eminent domain.
Summit Carbon Solutions wants the schedule of proceedings for its South Dakota permit application “paused for review and adjustment” after that state’s Legislature and governor approved a ban on the use of eminent domain for carbon dioxide pipelines.
Developers are suing over massive protests against the oil pipeline that crosses Iowa
The project — approved in December — will bring the first 765-kV transmission line to the Upper Midwest. It is part of the largest electric grid expansion project in U.S. history.
The bills don’t name Summit Carbon Solutions, but they’re a response to the Iowa company’s proposed $9 billion, five-state pipeline.
MidAmerican Energy has tentative plans to complete a 900-acre solar energy farm south of Iowa City that stalled several years ago amid an electrical grid evaluation.
A spokesperson for MidAmerican said the study is “misleading” and highlights certain pieces of data to “to further its agenda.”
In the lawsuit, filed in 2019, developer Energy Transfer accuses Greenpeace of defamation and orchestrating criminal behavior by Dakota Access pipeline protesters.
The Duane Arnold Energy Center’s nuclear reactor might be active again in 2028, potentially making it the third ever decommissioned plant in the United States to resume operation.
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