Danish wind turbine manufacturer and developer Vestas announced it has received an order for 214 MW worth of wind turbines as part of the larger 2 GW Wind XI project being developed in Iowa by MidAmerican Energy. Earlier this year, Vestas announced that it had entered into a conditional agreement … [continued]
Originally published on CleanTechies. US Energy company MidAmerican Energy announced late August that it would proceed with its $3.6 billion investment into the 2 GW Wind XI project set to be developed in Iowa. MidAmerican Energy announced that they had received the final order and approval from the Iowa Utilities Board … [continued]
The US wind industry continues to grow, approaching record levels of activity in the second quarter, according to the American Wind Energy Association’s Q2’16 market report. Published this week, the American Wind Energy Association’s (AWEA) US Wind Industry Second Quarter 2016 Market Report, reveals strong growth in the second quarter — a total … [continued]
US energy company MidAmerican Energy has announced a commitment to invest $3.6 billion to build the 2 GW Wind XI project in Iowa. The MidAmerican Energy Company announced last week that it had filed a request with the Iowa Utilities Board to build the 2 GW Wind XI, a project … [continued]
The new $3.6 billion Wind XI wind energy development plan for Iowa will put Warren Buffett’s MidAmerican Energy customers at 85% wind when fully built out.
The Governors Wind Energy Coalition has joined the wind energy fray, urging renewal of — what else? — the production tax credit for wind energy.
Warren Buffet’s energy investment vehicle MidAmerican Energy — which has already invested over $15 billion into renewable energy — will soon be investing a further $280 million into Iowa wind farms. To be specific, the utility — which is owned by Berkshire Hathaway — is now planning to develop a … [continued]
Why is everybody making such a fuss about the latest Warren Buffett wind power purchase? Okay, so the legendary investor’s MidAmerican Energy Company has just ordered a huge mess of wind turbines from Siemens, but it was all the way back in May that MidAmerican announced a new $1.9 billion … [continued]
Originally published on Climate Progress. By Kiley Kroh. Iowa’s hugely successful wind industry isn’t just an economic driver, it’s having a major impact on cutting pollution and saving water. Wind energy generation in Iowa avoids more than 8.4 million metric tons of climate-altering carbon pollution — the equivalent of taking … [continued]
Iowa will add 1.05 gigawatts of new wind energy capacity by 2015, thanks to the Iowa Utilities Board’s approval of a $1.9 billion proposal from MidAmerican Energy.
Regulatory approval of the Wind VII project paves the way for construction to start as soon as September 2013, bringing hundreds of green jobs and millions in revenue to landowners and the government.
