Ag and Environment

Vice President Joe Biden is expected to announce a series of initiatives today aimed at helping middle-income Americans make their homes more energy efficient and boost job growth among home retrofitters, according to Reuters.

The …

Plug-in electric cars such as Nissan Motor Co.’s Leaf and General Motor Co.’s Volt, could make up 9 percent of U.S. auto sales by 2020 and 22 percent in 2030, Bloomberg New Energy Finance said …

International Business Machines Corp. (IBM) announced it is researching a way to cut electronic devices’ power consumption by 90 percent and reduce so-called vampire energy, or power used while the gadgets are turned off. IBM’s …

Iowa recently received a high energy efficiency ranking in a national review.

The state’s high ranking in 2010 can be credited to actions it began taking more than 20 years ago.

“However you slice and …

Google Inc has joined an estimated $5 billion undersea cable project to carry power from offshore wind farms to the east coast of the United States, Reuters reported.

The power transmission cable will stretch for …

On Thursday, Gov. Chet Culver released a report by the Upper Midwest Transmission Development Initiative that identified six renewable energy transmission corridors connecting more than 15,000 megawatts of wind development in the region, including two …