This clean energy investment
will:
Create jobs: Create 460
construction jobs over two years and 48 permanent jobs.
Save money: Is expected to cut
consumer rates by $3.3 million in 2015, growing to $10 million annually by
2017.
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.
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.
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.
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. 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.
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.
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