Renewable Energy
Never before has our nation been in such demand for alternatives to the world’s dwindling supply of fossil fuel. The raw biomass produced in Western Iowa’s vast corn and soybean operations is part of the solution. State-of-the-art ethanol and biodiesel plants are currently in production in Western Iowa to help meet the nation’s increasing energy demands. For more information about the burgeoning renewable energy industry, click on the links below.
- Hawkeye Growth, Menlo — 110 million gallon a year corn-based ethanol facility
- Louis Dreyfus Commodities, Grand Junction — 110 million gallon a year corn-based ethanol facility
- MidAmerican Energy Wind Farm, Adair and Cass counties — 77 wind turbines
- Hardin Hilltop Wind Farm, Jefferson — Eight-turbine community wind farm
- Invenergy Wind Project, Ida County
- Amaizing Energy, Denison — 40-million-gallon per year Ethanol production facility.
- Quad-County Corn Processors, Galva — 30-million-gallon per year Ethanol plant.
- Renewable Energy Group, Ralston — Design, build and operate biodiesel facilities.
- POET, Coon Rapids — 40 million-gallon per year producer of fuel-grade Ethanol.
- West Central Cooperative, Ralston — 12-million gallon biodiesel plant.
- Victory Wind Park - Crawford & Carroll Counties - 66 1.5MW GE Turbines. At full output this park generate 99MW. These tower are 80 meters tall.
- Western Iowa Energy, Wall Lake — 30 million gallon biodiesel plant with full production of ASTM certified product.
- MidAmerican Intrepid Energy Windfarm, Sac County
- Maple River Energy, LLC, Galva — 5 million-gallon per year biodiesel manufacturing facility
- Carroll Wind Park Carroll County- 100 1.5MW GE Turbines. At full output this park generate 150MW. These tower are 80 meters tall.
