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The damage was unusual, experts say, because turbines are built to withstand extreme weather. Iowa is a wind powerhouse, with thousands of turbines. By Christopher Flavelle The footage from southwest ...

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The president takes his affordability message Tuesday to the state where turbine farms have helped keep electricity prices low.

AMES, Iowa – Hui Hu picked up a 3-D printed model of a typical wind turbine and began explaining two problems with the big, tall, three-bladed machines. First, said the Iowa State University professor ...

OKLAHOMA CITY — A wind farm in southwest Iowa suffered a direct hit from a powerful tornado that crumpled five of the massive, power-producing towers, including one that burst into flames. But experts ...

DES MOINES, Iowa — Iowa Attorney General Brenna Bird is suing a Washington state-based company for allegedly violating Iowa's solid waste laws by abandoning wind turbine blades at various locations ...

Iowa is also a wind energy powerhouse. A remarkable 59 percent of the state’s energy in 2023 came from wind turbines, a larger share than any other state in the country. Texas is the only state that ...

The state of Iowa is suing a Washington-state company and its executives for allegedly dumping tons of old wind-turbine blades around Iowa, in violation of the state’s solid-waste laws.The lawsuit ...

AMES, Iowa – Hydraulic equipment in two civil engineering labs recently pushed and pulled at test sections of a new kind of wind turbine tower, simulating the heavy, twisting loads that towers have to ...

Storms that pummeled much of Nebraska with torrential rain, high winds and large hail spun up fierce tornados in Iowa Tuesday that caused extensive damage and an unknown number of injuries in at least ...

GREENFIELD, Iowa – The National Weather Service has confirmed at least an EF-3 tornado tore through Iowa, toppling massive wind turbines in its path. The wind turbines were located near the town of ...