Duane Arnold Energy Center

The Duane Arnold Energy Center's generator rotor leaves Palo the morning of Friday, Dec. 19 by rail en route to Schenectady, New York, for refurbishment.

Duane Arnold Energy Center achieves restart milestone with generator rotor removal

The Duane Arnold Energy Center near Palo has completed its first major equipment operation in more than a decade, removing and lifting the plant’s 200-ton generator rotor as part of ongoing efforts to restart the shuttered nuclear facility. This is…

Solar farm next best thing

The irony of what is happening in Palo with a proposed large-scale solar farm is…

Area residents decry NextEra solar farm proposal near Palo

NextEra Energy’s proposed plan to build a large-scale solar farm at and around the now-shuttered…

Solar panels

A big loss with Toyota Financial Services

CBJ Editorial The community will need to rely on its sunny disposition now that Toyota…

Toyota Financial Services

A Duane Arnold Energy Center eulogy

CBJ Editorial When a prominent business or community leader dies or retires in ordinary times,…

Duane Arnold to stay shuttered following derecho 

An aerial view of the Duane Arnold Energy Center in Palo, with the cooling towers…

Closing DAEC won’t help climate change

CBJ Editorial It has been interesting to note the increasing number of elected officials and…

Tough questions for ICR Iowa

CBJ Editorial  When the Iowa City Area Development Group (ICAD) and the Cedar Rapids Metro…

Editorial: Avoiding an epochal shutdown

By CBJ Editorial Board What is it going to take to prevent the shutdown of…

Duane Arnold’s closure ends Iowa’s nuclear chapter

By Dave DeWitte [email protected] The recent decision by NextEra Energy to close Iowa’s only nuclear…

Duane Arnold Energy Center shuts down for fueling

800 additional workers come to town, $58 million invested By Sarah Binder PALO–In most industrial…