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If approved as filed, this would add about $2.89 a month to a typical household's natural gas bill; it does not involve data centers.
+$3a month
MidAmerican Energy
Investor-owned utility (MidAmerican Energy Co), regulated by the Iowa Utilities Commission. The average Iowa home pays about $112 a month for electricity (EIA, 2024).
1 pending rate case, about $3 a month more if approved
That is the ask, not the outcome: commissions usually approve less than the utility requests. Each case below links its docket and sources.
$112
average Iowa home today (EIA, 2024)
$114
if everything pending is approved as asked
+$3
a month
The ask, not the outcome. Your own bill scales with your usage; a home using twice the state average would see roughly twice the change.
Pending
Decided
This case does not set rates directly, but the new solar plant it approves will eventually be paid for through customer rates, and MidAmerican has said data center growth is a major reason it is needed.
no figure yet
How to have a say
Rate cases are decided by the Iowa Utilities Commission, which takes written comments on every docket and holds public hearings on the big ones. Comment deadlines and hearing dates are on each case page above when we have them. The office that argues for households in these cases is the Office of Consumer Advocate; its filings are the plain-English version of the utility's numbers.
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Corrections and tips: [email protected]. Every figure links to its source on the case page.