Today, Iowa environmental groups sued the Iowa Department of Natural Resources (DNR) for approving permits that allow hazardous disposal practices at the Ottumwa coal ash landfill, which holds waste from the Ottumwa coal-burning power plant co-owned by Alliant Energy and MidAmerican Energy. Toxic discharge from the coal plant pollutes Iowa’s groundwater and … [continued]
Wind turbines have increased in size and quantity to meet clean energy capacity demands
Danish wind turbine manufacturing giant Vestas Wind Systems A/S announced today that, with the installation of a V110-2.0 megawatt (MW) turbine at MidAmerican Energy’s Wind XI project in in late 2018, the company has become the first to install 100 gigawatts (GW) of wind turbines.
MidAmerican Energy’s breathtaking 2 gigawatts (GW) Wind XI project continues to roll out across Iowa with several new announcements confirming another 341 megawatts (MW) worth of capacity across the Arbor Hill and Ivester wind farms.
MidAmerican Energy announced a new large-scale wind energy project towards the end of May, dubbed “Wind XII,” which consists of 591 megawatts (MW) worth of new wind capacity in Iowa, and which would propel the company to be the first investor-owned electric utility in the US to generate renewable energy equal to 100% of its customers usage each year.
Iowa energy provider MidAmerican Energy has announced this week plans to build two new wind farms with a combined capacity of 550 megawatts (MW) in Adair County which will be a part of the company’s previously-announced 2 gigawatt (GW) Wind XI project.
Danish wind energy company Vestas announced or confirmed four separate North American wind turbine orders over the weekend to close out the first quarter, totaling 598 megawatts (MW).
MidAmerican Energy Company announced this week that it had completed two new wind farms in the state of Iowa totaling 338 megawatts, both of which are part of the mammoth 2 gigawatt Wind XI economic development project announced in early 2016.
Midwest American energy utility MidAmerican Energy has this week announced plans to build the third wind farm as part of the mammoth 2 GW Wind XI project in Iowa, the largest economic development project in the state’s history.
Vestas Wind Systems A/S announced a flurry of wind turbine orders to mark the end of the third quarter last week, with orders from the United States, India, Europe, and Latin America totaling 463 MW.
