Grist: America`s wind energy boom is about to deliver the biggest economic investment in Iowa`s history - and blow a whole lot of cheap, clean electricity into the appliances and lightbulbs of the state`s residents.
Warren Buffett`s MidAmerican Energy Co. announced it would spend $1.9 billion building new wind turbines in the state, increasing the amount of wind energy generated in Iowa to about 6,000 megawatts, up from 5,000 megawatts today, according to a report in the Des Moines Register. The state...