Benefit farmers and the state: Landowners that allow turbines on their land will be paid $3.2 million annually and the state is expected to generate more than $360 million in additional property tax revenues over the next 30 years.
4. Create jobs: Create 460 construction jobs
over two years and 48 permanent jobs.
5. Save money: Is expected to cut consumer
rates by $3.3 million in 2015, growing to
$10 million annually by 2017.
6. Benefit farmers and the state: Landowners that allow turbines
on their land will be paid $3.2 million annually and the state is
expected to generate more than $360 million in additional
property tax revenues over the next 30 years.
7. Attract businesses: Facebook recently chose to locate a new
data center in Iowa, in part because the company wants to
meet its goal of getting 25% of its power from clean sources.
8. It's no wonder that clean energy enjoys such strong support
when projects like this are creating jobs, attracting
investment, saving consumers money and reducing pollution.
More than 70% of Americans support expanding wind power
and a whopping 85% of Iowans see wind energy as a positive
for the state.
9. Smart politicians of both parties have already seen that
running on an overwhelmingly popular issue like wind power
can contribute to winning campaigns. In our Running Clean
report, we describe the way that President Obama
campaigned on wind energy during the 2012 election
10. . He cited his support for federal tax incentives for wind
energy (and his opponent's opposition to them) during stump
speeches, in a television ad and in a special website dedicated
to Iowa wind. Conservative Republicans in the state like Rep.
Steve King and Rep. Tom Latham took the same position as
the president, supporting wind energy and even urging Mitt
Romney to change his mind. On election day, the President
won the state by 6 points.
11. While some Members of Congress and other Washington
insiders may think of clean energy as a wedge issue, the news
out of the heartland shows that isn't the case on the ground.
In the real world, clean energy is creating jobs and saving
consumers money. And those are concepts that voters in both
parties can agree on.