Evergy announced it will build a 10-megawatt solar farm near its coal-fired power plant in northeast Kansas City. The company stated that half of the energy from the solar farm will go to serve the firm’s entire base of 1.6 million customers in Kansas and Missouri reported the Kansas Reflector. Click here for Kansas Reflector
January 10, 2022 archive
Senators review nation’s hydropower abilities
Oklahoma U.S. Sen. James Lankford and others on the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee will explore hydropower during a hearing on Tuesday. Led by Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin, the committee hearing will examine the opportunities and challenges for maintaining existing hydropower capacity, expanding hydropower at non-powered dams and increasing pumped storage hydropower. The …
Tesla unveils giant Megapack battery project in South Texas
While the new Tesla car-manufacturing plant near Austin, Texas is about to open for production, the company has also gone public with a giant Megapack battery project south of Houston. Online publication electrek described it as one of the biggest yet…an 81-Megapack project. Click here for electrek
Tuesday’s other energy headlines
** Regional prices of crude oil pumped in Western Canada and in North Dakota have risen this week to lower their discounts to the U.S. benchmark, WTI Crude, after freezing winter temperatures disrupted crude flows from Alberta’s oil sands and the Bakken shale play in the United States. ** Coal burned for electricity spiked 17% in 2021, …
Fiery train derailment near Wichita Falls
No injuries were reported in a fiery train derailment near Wichita Falls, Texas. The accident occurred near the small town of Oklaunion and resulted in several cars carrying denatured alcohol bursting into flames. No evacuations were needed according to the Wichita Falls Times Record. Fire crews from Wichita Falls, Vernon and Sheppard Air Force …
Texas Railroad Commission takes necessary stand on oilfield earthquakes
The move by the Texas Railroad Commission to crack down on wastewater disposal wells in the state’s share of the Permian Basin is long overdue according to one writer. It’s a move that echoed what Oklahoma regulators did some years ago following a surge in earthquakes in the state’s oil and gas drilling regions. …
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