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Energy mix shifts cost to wind and gas favoring consumers
Alliant and MidAmerican executives describe a move toward wind and natural gas reducing reliance on coal. Fracking advances and lower gas prices enable cheaper dispatch of gas units in MISO markets, with wind dispatched first due to zero fuel costs, lowering customers’ rates while utilities expand wind investments and retire older coal plants.
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Terry Kouba
Alliant
Kouba
Allianz
Justin Foss
U.S. Energy Information Administration
Foss
Iowa
MISO
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
Ashton Hockman
MidAmerican Energy
Hockman
Mid American
Iowa Utilities Board
Franklin County
Whispering Willow
EIA
Towa
John Watts
Prairie Creek
Watts
Clinton
Dubuque
Marshalltown
Burlington
MidAmerican
Council Bluffs
Bettendorf
Adam Wesley
the Gazette
Cedar Rapids
Alliant Energy