Policy

Energy policy remains a top priority for Iowa lawmakers in the current state legislative session. Learn about key legislative issues under discussion and their potential impact on your local electric cooperative.

Iowa's 2025 Legislative Session will begin on Jan. 13, 
and IAEC electric cooperatives will prioritize efforts to ensure Iowa’s law regarding defined service areas is not undermined. Learn why this law has been so crucial to our mission to serve co-op member-consumers.

The electric grid gathers and distributes power from many sources, including those considered baseload or intermittent. Learn about the differences, and why a diverse energy portfolio is necessary.

Those of us who work in the electric utility sector are deeply concerned how federal energy policy is threatening electric reliability for the families, businesses and communities we serve. It’s time to sound the alarm and raise awareness of how these misguided mandates will negatively impact our country.

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) recently released its long-anticipated final rules aimed at existing coal and new natural gas power plants. The four new rules to regulate power plants represent the wrong approach at a critical time for our nation’s energy future.

Learn what several experts view as industry trends, best practices and issues of interest for utilities, including electric cooperatives.

As a new year begins, so will the 2024 legislative session of the Iowa General Assembly. This year, Iowa’s electric co-ops are not proactively seeking significant changes to Iowa laws but are instead taking a “do no harm” message to Iowa policymakers.

Electric reliability across America is in serious jeopardy, and frankly, it’s unacceptable.

In late February, The Des Moines Register’s editorial board published a reckless column calling for MidAmerican Energy and other Iowa electric utilities to abandon coal, “even if doing so also means taking some gambles on brownouts and blackouts, price volatility and newer technology.”

Learn how electric utility regulations provide consistency and reliability through a utility’s obligation to serve its assigned service territory.