1000 Friends Of Iowa Legislative Wrap-Up Tuesday blogforiowa.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from blogforiowa.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Environmental advocates and groups advocating for older and low-income Iowans have raised concerns about how the governor’s bill to merge and reorganize state agencies could impact the rates Iowans pay for electricity and natural gas.
Battery storage could play key role in Iowa s energy resilience thegazette.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from thegazette.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Feb 25, 2021
DECORAH, Iowa (AP) So many Decorah residents are putting up solar panels and installing small turbines that Alliant Energy, which serves the city of 7,700 in Winneshiek County, is nearing the limit of how much distributed energy it can host without degrading the quality of electricity in the community.
Rather than say no to more renewable energy, the utility is installing a $2.5 million battery system to store the energy and regulate voltage.
“It can absorb power when there’s too much and then, later in the day, when the sun goes down, we can release that energy and let it flow back onto the system,” said Sarah Martz, manager of distribution engineering at Alliant.