Alliant holds informational meeting about proposed 1200 megawatt power plant facility next to Emery Generating Station.
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Alliant holds informational meeting about proposed 1200 megawatt power plant facility next to Emery Generating Station. May 14, 2026 5:30AM CDT CLEAR LAKE - A public information meeting was held in Clear Lake last night by the Iowa Utilities Commission and Alliant Energy about a proposed 1200 megawatt, natural gas-fired combustion turbine power plant facility in southwestern Cerro Gordo County. Alliant says the proposed Riverhawk Energy Center is proposed to be adjacent to the company's existing Emery Generating Station, which has been online since 2004. While some in the room believed the project is tied to some sort of data center project inside the county, Alliant Energy's Interstate Power & Light president May Farlinger says the company needs to address the growing demand for energy across their territory. "We don't build power plants specifically for any one given customer. We are seeing growth on our system. Some of it coming from data centers. Some of it coming from manufacturing. Some coming from existing customers. So we're evaluating all that growth, our system, the needs from a reliability standpoint, and making decisions for future investments based on all those factors and many more." Farlinger says residential customers will not end up paying a lot more for large growth projects such as this. "Those costs are assigned to the customers that are creating the...
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