Summit, based in Ames, plans to put 333 miles of pipeline through North Dakota, part of a 2,500-mile network of pipelines in five states that includes Iowa.
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Summit, based in Ames, plans to put 333 miles of pipeline through North Dakota, part of a 2,500-mile network of pipelines in five states that includes Iowa.
Four Iowa business groups are advocating for a reform of how both residential and business electric rates are set in the state.
In a company earnings call Wednesday, NextEra’s CEO said the company is seeing strong interest from data center customers, and it’s conducting engineering studies and talking to regulators to determine whether the Duane Arnold nuclear plant can be reopened.
Construction wrapped up late last week, ITC Midwest spokesperson Rod Pritchard said. The 345-kilovolt line was fully energized Thursday.
Clean energy and environmental advocates say the renewable energy verification process already lacked accountability, and the Iowa Utilities Commission’s proposed changes only make it weaker
Groups asking Iowa regulators to reconsider approval of project
Linn County Rural Electric Cooperative is one of several partners on the project, which received a $1 million grant from the U.S. Department of Energy.
The Duane Arnold Solar Project is taking shape as about 250 workers a day install panels on more than 800 acres. Alliant Energy, which will own the 200-megawatt site when complete, said the project will be operational by the end of the year.
Google will invest another $1 billion in a Council Bluffs data center and $1.3 million on water quality projects in the Missouri River Basin in southwest Iowa. The tech company still is considering whether to build a data center in Cedar Rapids.
Emergency managers in Linn and Johnson counties said they haven’t heard anything about resuming nuclear power generation at the Duane Arnold Energy Center, near Palo, which would be costly and would require federal authorization.
Linn County Supervisor Kirsten Running-Marquardt believes wind and solar energy are critical to economic development in Iowa. But she also wants to make sure landowners who sign contracts for wind projects aren’t left twisting in the wind.
Former Republican Iowa Gov. Terry Branstad, who signed a 1983 law requiring utilities to produce a certain amount of their energy from renewable sources, said policymakers should be pursuing an "all of the above" approach to energy production, which includes fossil fuels and renewable sources.
One-third of Grinnell College’s campus is now running on renewable energy with a new 9,000-panel solar array, the largest private solar installation in the state.
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