Iowa Business For Clean Energy

02/24/2025

🚨 Iowa Business For Clean Energy Update: Read our February Newsletter. Everything you need to know to be well informed about energy in Iowa.

https://www.iowacleanenergy.org/news/february-newsletter-governors-omnibus-energy-bill-introduced

02/21/2025

Governor Reynolds set energy reform as a priority of her office this legislative session. She introduced two bills to the legislature, one in the House and one in the Senate. Iowa Business for Clean Energy analyzed these bills in our February Newsletter. Read about it here.

https://www.iowacleanenergy.org/news/february-newsletter-governors-omnibus-energy-bill-introduced

02/05/2024

Have you heard about Integrated Resource Planning, but want to learn more. Spend your lunch hour tomorrow learning about this important energy topic on a Zoom call.

Energy Lunch Lions and Tigers and … Integrated Resource Planning, Oh My! CEDI Energy Lunch with Bob Rafferty of Iowa Business for Clean Energy Tuesday February 6, Noon on Zoom. State granted monopolies are chock full of moral hazard, especially over a product as fundamental to every aspect of mode...

09/19/2023

At the August IUB meeting, Iowa Businesses shined a spotlight on weaknesses in the energy regulation process



https://www.iowacleanenergy.org/news/utilities-board-study-report-iowa-businesses-highlight-weaknesses-in-energy-regulation

Ensuring our future competitiveness Reform the Grid Learn more here

06/07/2023

Recent Utility Board action and Supreme Court Decisions will spur greater debate and competition to determine Iowa's Grid of the Future

Recent Utility Board Action, Supreme Court Decisions will Spur Greater Debate and Competition to Determine Iowa's Grid of the Future

04/10/2023

“bills that have been pushed by utilities to give them exclusive or preferential treatment for building regional transmission lines, called “right-of-first-refusal” laws, mean customers might pay more than they should for all those wires and towers, critics say”

03/29/2023

The ROFR law was “quintessentially crony capitalism,” (right of first refusal)

Quoting the Iowa Supreme Court

The court decision on Friday affects $2.6 billion in pending transmission projects slated to be built by ITC Midwest, MidAmerican Energy and Cedar Falls Utilities.

03/27/2023

Calling it “crony capitalism”, Iowa Supreme Court strikes blow to anti-competitive electric transmission law. The Court noted that the law will lead to higher rates for consumers. Our March newsletter dives into this topic.



www.iowacleanenergy.org/news/newsletter-crony-capitalism-ia-supreme-court-sticks-dagger-into-anti-competitive-transmission-law

01/19/2023

Dispute over MidAmerican’s $3.9 billion WindPRIME proposal gets national attention.

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01/17/2023

Great article on why Iowa should not limit solar development

Opinion: Iowa is good for commodities and good for solar, so let landowners decide, write Brian Krambeer and Andy Johnson.

01/05/2023

Former Republican legislator Libby Jacobs discusses the importance of upgrading transmission and renewable energy for a reliable electric grid.

Former Iowa Utilities Board chair and technical/policy consultant: A clean energy economy will require a delivery system to support it.

01/04/2023

Industry experts predict wind and solar combined with storage will cost 1/3 less than gas power plants later this decade. Iowa will need robust utility resource planning to take advantage and lower energy costs.

“These [IRA] incentives …. are transforming how we think about electricity procurement because these resources are going to be so cheap,” Evolved Energy Principal Jamil Farbes said.