Green Energy Engagement
In addition to traditional power plants, MidAmerican Energy began investing in green energy solutions in 2004. The company currently generates about 3,300 megawatts through wind turbines. In 2010, the company’s energy unit placed an order of 258 wind turbines with Siemens, Europe’s largest engineering company. Siemens states that this was is the largest order of of on-shore wind power turbines the company has ever received. All 258 turbines are now located in the Iowa region, feeding 190,000 households with approximately 593 megawatts of green energy. In 2011, MidAmerican Energy entered into a wind turbine supply agreement with the German Energy company which lead to another order of 176 wind turbines. Currently, the turbines are manufactured at three different sites in the region state of Iowa. Having finalized the talks, Mark Albenze, CEO of the Americas Business Unit of Siemens Energy’s Wind Power Division, said that once the 2012 projects were complete, MidAmerican Energy and Siemens would have provided a total of 1 gigawatt of environmentally friendly power to approximately 300,000 U.S. households over a two-year period.
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