The development of data centers in Iowa -- including two that are planned for southwest Cedar Rapids -- will “keep costs down for all customers,” Lisa Barton, president and CEO of Alliant Energy told a Cedar Rapids audience Tuesday.
Although Gov. Kim Reynolds signed and submitted a request for Iowa to enroll in the federal Home Energy Rebate programs, it is unclear when Iowans will begin to receive rebates for their electric appliances and home upgrades due to President Donald Trump’s executive order.
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The company that owns the only nuclear power plant in Iowa — located near Palo — indicated Friday it has moved to restore the site’s operating license.
In North Dakota, under a process called amalgamation, if 60 percent of the landowners in a proposed carbon dioxide underground storage area agree to the plan, the state can force the other 40 percent to comply.
But the state regulator states: ‘“I am an elected Public Utilities Commissioner and will carry out my duties as such. I do not have a legal conflict.”
Fees for the state’s regulators to analyze proposed routes could hit nearly $1.47M
The more than 1,000-mile pipeline passes through North Dakota, South Dakota, Iowa and Illinois. Its pathway includes unceded land recognized as belonging to the Sioux Nation under an 1851 treaty with the U.S. government.
U.S. ethanol producers are on the brink of getting the green light from Congress to sell higher blends of corn-based biofuel nationwide -- a long-elusive goal the industry considers crucial to its future.
Summit Carbon Solutions has demanded that opponents of its carbon dioxide pipeline project retract certain “false and defamatory” statements and to cease further similar comments about the company.
The Industrial Commission approved a plan to accept millions of tons of carbon dioxide to be permanently stored underground against the wishes of some landowners in the storage area.
The U.S. Department of Energy will give the money to a group that plans to build facilities in four states -- including Iowa -- to produce hydrogen fuel with electricity from wind, solar and nuclear power.
A new version submitted Tuesday shows ‘major reroutes’ after South Dakota regulators rejected an earlier proposal.
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