88.5% of Iowa utility customers power came from renewables in 2021

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Iowa is blessed with a lot of wind...

MidAmerican Energy provided 88.5% of customers' annual power needs from renewable energy last year, the Iowa Utilities Board has verified. That's five percentage points higher than 2020, according to a Monday news release from the utility.

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MidAmerican said it paid nearly $36 million in property taxes last year on its wind farms. And it paid rural landowners about $38 million through lease payments.

https://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/money/business/2022/07/11/midamerican-iowa-power-amount-wind-renewable-sources-customers-2021/10028921002/

Property taxes and lease payments are two aspects of wind and solar that isn't being talked about a lot, but obviously it's a significant contribution.

[Delarage]

1. In a Red State

At that. In Delaware, some people keep bitching about off-shore wind farms. Crazy.

[NNadir]

2. So does this mean that MidAmerican is going to shut the coal powered Walter Scott Energy Center...

...or is this just bullshit misleading accounting wherein people pretend to sort electrons?

There is some "by 2030" talk about it, of course, about as meaningful as the "by 2030" bullshit the Germans put out while burning coal because Putin won't take their money anymore.

Dreamy stuff from the Sierra Club where they still think unreliable energy can replace coal, and where they never see a stretch of land that can't be made into an industrial wind park.

"Percent talk" is always 100 PERCENT of the time meant to mislead.

The results of half a century of "percent talk" are in:

Week beginning on July 3, 2022: 419.73 ppm
Weekly value from 1 year ago: 417.49 ppm
Weekly value from 10 years ago: 395.15 ppm
Last updated: July 12, 2022

Weekly average CO2 at Mauna Loa

Back in 2012, when the concentration of the dangerous fossil fuel waste carbon dioxide was 24.58 ppm less than it is now, I'd already been hearing reference after reference to "percents" always cherry-picked out of the general trend.

The general trend, despite all this bullshit, is that the concentration of dangerous fossil fuel waste, including that which spews out of the four coal plants at the Walter Scott "Energy Center" is rising faster than ever before.

Congratulations on all that concern about "cleaning up" Three Mile Island to a standard that the coal ash dumps at MidAmerican's plants could never, in a million years and a trillion dollars, ever meet.