Also, the Iowa Department of Education on Wednesday awarded more than $2 million in competitive grants to eight school ...

Gov. Kim Reynolds said she likely will move forward with plans to create a nuclear energy task force to make recommendations about adding nuclear energy to Iowa’s energy portfolio.

A new ICF report has found rising US electricity demand is boosting interest in nuclear energy and small modular reactors ...

LAS VEGAS (AP) — Duane “Keffe D” Davis, who is awaiting trial in the 1996 killing of rap icon Tupac Shakur, has lost a bid ...

Duane Arnold energy plant. (KCRG TV photo) The Linn County Planning and Zoning Commission took public input at its meeting Monday on restarting the nuclear power plant outside of Palo.

The solar field sits adjacent to the decommissioned Duane Arnold nuclear plant in Palo, which shut down in 2020. The project is named after the man-made Pleasant Creek, created as a source of ...

The project was developed by Duane Arnold Solar, a NextEra Energy Resources subsidiary, in two phases. The first phase began operations in March 2025 while the remaining 150MW opened in December 2024.

Alliant Energy said a 200-MW solar facility in Linn County, Iowa, was recently brought online. The Pleasant Creek Solar installation—renamed after being known as Duane Arnold Solar during ...

NextEra Energy has taken the first steps to open the Duane Arnold power plant, Iowa’s only nuclear power plant, by late 2028. Duane Arnold operated in Palo, Iowa, from 1974 until 2020, when a derecho, ...

LINN COUNTY, Iowa (KCRG) - NextEra is hoping to recommission the Duane Arnold plant as early as 2028. The company filed a ...

The roughly 600-megawatt Duane Arnold Energy Center, which shut in 2020 after operating for 45 years, would likely also feed power to data centers, Ketchum said, though no contracts have been signed.