Slam the Scam: Campaign by Warren Buffet’s MidAmerican Energy Alerts Customers to Fraud
On August 1, MidAmerican Energy launched an awareness campaign, “Slam the Scam,” to prevent customers from falling victim to energy fraud.
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Is Buffett’s MidAmerican Energy Hankering for Hawaiian Electric?
After registering as a new business in Hawaii recently, billionaire Warren Buffett’s competitive retail energy supplier, MidAmerican Energy Services, now may pursue an interest in purchasing Hawaiian Electric (HECO), provided that state regulators do not approve NextEra Energy’s $4.3 billion acquisition of the Honolulu-based utility, Pacific Business News reported on ... Read more »
MidAmerican Proposes to Recoup Costs by Billing Iowa Customers
MidAmerican Energy filed with the Iowa Utilities Board (Docket No. RPU-2015-0003) on November 6 for authority to place into effect a Capital Infrastructure Investment Automatic Adjustment Mechanism (or Tracker) on natural gas bills that go out to its 536,000 gas customers in Iowa. During the first year in which it ... Read more »
IPA Includes MidAmerican Energy in 2016 Procurement Plan
In its 2016 electricity and renewable resource procurement plan – filed with the Illinois Commerce Commission (ICC) on September 28 (Case No. 15-0541) – the Illinois Power Agency (IPA) identifies the default power suppliers for the state’s eligible retail customers as Ameren Illinois, Commonwealth Edison (ComEd); and, for the first ... Read more »
Google’s Iowa Data Center Buys 407 MW of RECs
Google signed a contract with MidAmerican Energy to supply its new Council Bluffs, Iowa, data center with up to 407 MW of wind energy, as tracked by renewable energy certificates (RECs). This agreement covers not only its current facilities but will allow for future expansion as well. This is Google’s ... Read more »
Iowa Plans to Spend $500m
A $500 million energy efficiency plan in Iowa over the next five years represents a $100 million increase over a program that is just concluding. The Iowa Utilities Board approved the MidAmerican Energy Company’s five-year energy efficiency plan and budget for both natural gas and electric customers in Iowa that ... Read more »
100% Wind Power for Facebook Iowa Data Center
When Facebook‘s forthcoming data center in Altoona, Iowa, goes online in early 2015, the social networking giant expects it to be supplied by 100 percent renewable energy – as tracked by renewable energy certificates – from a wind project in nearby Wellsburg, Iowa. Facebook started working on this project with RPM Access, ... Read more »
Green Groups Challenge Iowa Utility Efficiency Plans
Environmental groups are challenging the conservation plans of Iowa’s largest energy providers, reports the Associated Press. Iowa law requires that gas and electricity utilities submit energy efficiency plans every five years. The law also allows other groups to challenge those plans. Interstate Power and Light, a division of Alliant Energy, has ... Read more »