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In May 2018, MidAmerican Energy announced a new large-scale wind energy project called “Wind XII.” The project consists of 591 megawatts worth of energy created by wind in Iowa. Wind XII will make MidAmerican the first investor-owned electric utility in the United States to generate renewable energy equal to 100% of its customers usage each ...
With data centers and artificial intelligence such as ChatGPT under development in Iowa, MidAmerican expects energy demand will double by the mid-2030s, Abel said. "That will require substantial ...
In 2021, Iowa had a total summer capacity of 21,771 MW through all of its power plants, and in 2022 Iowa had a net generation of 71,316 GWh. [2] In 2023, the electrical energy generation mix was 59.5% wind, 23.4% coal, 14.9% natural gas, 1.1% hydroelectric, 0.7% solar, 0.3% biomass, and 0.1% petroleum.
At a cost of some 1.9 billion dollars, this will be Iowa's largest economic development project to date. The largest project, the Highland Wind Energy Center in O'Brien county, has 500 MW of generation capacity, making it the state's largest. [29] [30] [31] In 2017, construction was started on the third wind farm of MidAmerican Energy's Wind XI ...
Facing a price tag that could amount to $1.35 billion, Iowa water utilities are weighing how they would replace an estimated 96,440 lead service lines across the state under a proposed federal ...
Former Iowa legislator and executive director of Iowa Business for Clean Energy: The $3.9 billion proposal deserves careful regulatory scrutiny. Opinion: 5 reasons to be skeptical of MidAmerican's ...
‹ The template Pie chart is being considered for merging. › Sources of Iowa utility-scale electricity generation: full-year 2022 Wind (62.4%) Coal (25.4%) Natural Gas (9.2%) Hydroelectric (1.6%) Solar (1%) Biomass (0.3%) Petroleum (0.2%) Iowa electricity production by type Iowa is one of the largest states by electric production and the largest one that does not produce petroleum. In 2021 ...
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