Articles Tagged: solar energy

NextEra’s Duane Arnold Energy Center has completed a major step in decommissioning the closed nuclear power plant near Palo.

Advocates of renewable energy have tried to sell the problem of intermittency as a virtue of flexibility while wanting us …

Linn County Board of Supervisors Chair Ben Rogers called Friday for the board to increase again to five members after voters upset at six-figure salaries whittled it down to three members in 2016.

IUB’s partial procedural schedule sets deadlines of April 7 for any parties seeking intervention and April 14 for responses to any filed comment, objection or request to intervene.

Iowa’s annual winter home heating moratorium will end April 1. The Iowa Utilities Board encourages energy assistance customers currently protected from service disconnection to contact their utility company to discuss payment options.

Iowa House resolution recognizes the Ukrainian people’s fight for freedom and self governance.

Solar energy installations proved so popular that the $5 million Iowa lawmakers appropriated for the tax credits ran out. So rather than get their tax credit, nearly 3,000 homeowners were put on a waitlist. They’re still waiting.

NextEra, which will build the project at the decommissioned Duane Arnold nuclear facility and plans to sell it to Alliant Energy to own and operate, submitted the plans to Linn County for the two solar energy sites in Palo.

The motion failed with Supervisors Stacey Walker and Ben Rogers voting against it, and with Supervisor Louie Zumbach voting for it.

Proposed six-month study of utility-scale projects would not affect Coggon Solar plan, which was approved last month.

Here’s what we know about the Coggon Solar project in Linn County, approved by Linn County supervisors on Monday and expected to break ground in March.

Supervisors Ben Rogers and Stacey Walker voted for the project, while Louie Zumbach voted against it. The approval means that about 750 acres will be rezoned from agricultural to agricultural with a renewable energy overlay that expires after 35 years.

The supervisors cited the complexities of the utility-scale solar installation near Coggon as a reason to take more time, before voting late Tuesday to have more discussion on setback limits and solar panel height with the county staff.

The Linn County supervisors meet for a third consideration on Tuesday night with a fourth likely to follow

A utility-grade solar installation west of Coggon will proceed to the second of three consideration after the Linn County Board of Supervisors disregarded an advisory panel’s recommendation that they deny it.