Articles Tagged: renewable energy

Water quality, conservation agriculture, power grid and more to be discussed in seven panels at the 2023 Iowa Ideas virtual conference.

Over the past several years, the solar industry in Iowa has grown. With a plethora of misinformation surrounding the renewable energy source, solar experts outline the process, risks and rewards.

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While increasing blending volumes overall by raising the level for advanced biofuels, the new rule includes lower mandates for corn-based ethanol in 2024 and 2025 than the EPA had initially proposed.

A biodiesel refinery in Crawfordsville — about 20 miles south of Riverside — that was capable of producing about 10 million gallons of the fuel each year has ceased operation.

The Gazette spoke with MISO about how the power grid may fare amid summer heat, increasing renewable energy and consumer demands.

Iowa will spend $150,000 to pilot a program aimed at decreasing emergency response times in rural areas.

A new inventory maps which sectors decreased — or increased — their contributions to climate change.

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.

Recent polling has shown nearly 80 percent of Iowans oppose the use of eminent domain for CO2 pipelines. But the issue has divided Iowa lawmakers from both parties who are trying to balance competing interests of protecting landowners’ property rights and also protecting the future of Iowa’s ag economy.

Iowa's congressional delegation joined bipartisan lawmakers from Midwestern states in a letter calling on the Biden administration to permit the sale of higher ethanol fuel blends year-round.

Convergen Energy, which diverts non-recyclable products from landfills to turn it into pellets that can be burned as an alternative fuel, plans to open a new facility in Fairfax.

A Republican who upset a Democratic incumbent in 2020, Ashley Hinson said she is running to serve as a check against “reckless” spending and energy policies pushed by national Democrats.

But Iowa’s role within an expansive power grid helps protect it from rolling outages and blackouts.

The new law requires every Iowa gas station to offer the higher E15 ethanol blend