Emails show how NextEra Energy secured a big break on permitting fees for its Skeleton Creek solar farm as renewable energy projects multiply across Oklahoma, including separate developments tied to AI data centers.
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Iowa solar installers say the expiration of a state solar tax credit could make solar panels a tougher sell for residential and small business customers.
The Iowa Legislature adjourned last
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.
Wind producers in Iowa say they want a level playing field when it comes to tax breaks. They would go so far as to push for cutting tax breaks for other energy producers, like oil and gas. The current tax break wind production gets ends Dec. 31.
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.
