The Iowa Energy Forum is a growing community of concerned citizens committed to two goals – achieving energy security for our country and holding our elected officials accountable for shaping energy policies.

Our great state of Iowa leads the United States in the creation of renewable sources of energy.  We produce one-fourth of the nation's supply of ethanol and are a major supplier of wind energy with large wind farms in the northwest and north-central parts of the state.  We recognize, however, that more can be done to increase domestic production of all energy sources, and that we will still require traditional fossil fuel sources, such as oil and natural gas, for decades to come - even with conservation and the increased development of renewables.

In Iowa, we are major users of our locally-generated energy, including ethanol, wind, solar and hydro-electricity.  However, we depend on oil and natural gas to transport our goods to market; to heat our homes; and to produce hundreds of items that we depend on daily, such as fertilizer, animal feed, medicine, computers, phones and much more.

Please join us to help educate our leaders and to ensure that they pursue sound, fact-based legislation and solutions that protect our nation's economy and our energy security for generations to come.