Iowa’s largest utilities have dramatically scaled back efforts to help customers conserve energy since a 2018 law gutted the state’s efficiency requirements.
MidAmerican Energy reported kilowatt-hour savings
Iowa clean energy advocates suspect the state’s largest utility is secretly behind a new organization claiming to represent farmers, consumers and businesses that oppose the state’s solar policies.
Iowans will lose access to home energy audits, insulation rebates, and light bulb discounts under new five-year efficiency plans proposed by utilities.
The plans, filed with the Iowa Utilities
What’s the benefit of swapping out an inefficient light bulb? How a state answers a question like that, and others, determines which energy conservation efforts are funded by utilities and which ones get scrapped as too costly.
Iowa’s wind energy producers and manufacturers are scrambling to finance new projects in the next two months because they don’t know if the Federal Renewable Electricity Production Tax Credit they rely on heavily will be available after then.
