BUFFET IOWA UTILITY TO BE 57% WIND

MidAmerican aiming for 57 percent of energy from wind

Donnelle Eller, July 27 2015 Des Moines Register

Iowa’s MidAmerican Energy, the utility subsidiary of the Warren Buffett-owned Berkshire Hathaway Energy (BHE), is planning on obtaining up to 57% of its electricity from wind and is also planning to expand its generation capabilities into utility-scale solar power plants and community shared solar arrays…BHE just signed the White House’s American Business Act on Climate Pledge and committed to extend the fight against climate change along with Apple, Bank of America, Coca-Cola, General Motors, Goldman Sachs, Alcoa, Cargill, Google, Microsoft, PepsiCo, UPS, and Wal-Mart…MidAmerican has invested some $6 billion in wind energy since 2004 and has a $900 million 552 MW project awaiting approval from Iowa regulators that would take the utility’s installed renewables capacity to over 4,000 MW by 2017 and make it possible to get to the 57% wind target. click here for more

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