Iowa utilities adjusting efficiency programs to meet new spending caps

Energy News Network: Iowa utilities have less than six weeks to revise their upcoming five-year energy-efficiency plans to reflect a new law limiting how much they can spend on the programs.

Meanwhile, clean energy proponents are already looking beyond utility conservation programs for other ways to encourage Iowans to reduce energy use.

The Iowa Utilities Board gave the state’s three investor-owned utilities a July 9 deadline to file new plans following a stakeholder meeting last week to discuss the new law’s impact. The board must approve the plans by March 31, 2019. If it doesn’t, there will be no efficiency programs at all.

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