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Sources of Iowa utility-scale electricity generation: full-year 2022 Wind (62.4%) Coal (25.4%) Natural Gas (9.2%) Hydroelectric (1.6%) Solar (1%) Biomass (0.3%) Petroleum (0.2%) Iowa electricity production by type Iowa is one of the largest states by electric production and the largest one that does not produce petroleum. In 2021, Iowa had a total summer capacity of 21,771 MW through all of ...
Iowa has been among the top-five energy-consuming states, due in large part to its productive agriculture industry. State regulators implemented the nation's first renewable portfolio standard (RPS) applied to investor-owned utilities in 1983. The modest goal of 105 MW was soon met, and was exceeded nearly 100 times over by the end of 2019.
This is a list of U.S. states by total electricity generation, percent of generation that is renewable, total renewable generation, percent of total domestic renewable generation, [1] and carbon intensity in 2022.
Growth of net metering in the United States. Net metering is a policy by many states in the United States designed to help the adoption of renewable energy.Net metering was pioneered in the United States as a way to allow solar and wind to provide electricity whenever available and allow use of that electricity whenever it was needed, beginning with utilities in Idaho in 1980, and in Arizona ...
Iowa stands apart from other GOP strongholds in a climate-friendly respect – most of its energy comes from wind. Iowa is a very red state. It’s also a clean-energy powerhouse
Automatic meter reading (AMR) is the technology of automatically collecting consumption, diagnostic, and status data from water meter or energy metering devices (gas, electric) and transferring that data to a central database for billing, troubleshooting, and analyzing. This technology mainly saves utility providers the expense of periodic ...
"We are an energy state," Miller-Meeks said. "We are a net exporter of energy here in the state of Iowa. And it's a great story to tell, what we have done in continuing to use those natural resources.
The U.S. Department of Energy is awarding researchers a $2.5 million grant to establish a cybersecurity center based at Iowa State.