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Oil and Gas Industry Uses Billboards to Attack Wind Industry
The wind battle has been renewed in Oklahoma, thanks to a Tulsa World editorial by State Auditor and Inspector Gary Jones and an anti-wind group of oil and gas industry leaders who call themselves the Windfall Coalition.
Anti-wind billboards have popp…
Massive Wind Farm Wins Early Government Approval in Wyoming
What is being called the biggest wind farm project in the nation in Wyoming has passed another regulatory step as the federal government’s environmental analysis tentatively cleared the way for construction.
The Power Company of Wyoming, a subsidiary …
FERC Upholds Rejection of EDF Renewable Energy in North Dakota
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission says a regional grid operator in North Dakota was legally right to remove a wind farm developed by an EDF Renewable Energy subsidiary from the power grid.
FERC stood behind the decision that Midcontinent Indepe…
Oklahoma’s Wind Generation up to 18 Percent of State’s Electricity
The federal government says Iowa became the first state in 2015 to provide more than 30 percent of its electricity generation from wind. The U.S. Energy Information Administration said Iowa’s wind farms generated more than 31 percent of all generation …
OGE Moves up Construction of Wind Farm Transmission Line
The construction of a $190 million transmission line to connect wind farms in northwest Oklahoma is being moved up by Oklahoma Gas and Electric. Instead of waiting another three years, the utility plans to begin construction early in 2017 on the 126-mi…
Invenergy Snares Another Big Electrical Power Deal
Invenergy, the Chicago-based wind energy company with operations throughout Oklahoma announced this week the signing of a 120 MW wind power purchase agreement to provide EM with renewable energy largely from its Gunsight Wind Energy Center located in T…
Wind Industry Prepares to Fight Tax Credit Elimination in Oklahoma Legislature
The battle lines are drawn on one energy bill before the Oklahoma legislature—one that proposes the elimination of tax credits for the wind industry.
Rep. Lee Denney and Sen. Jason Smalley, both Republicans, introduced HB 2818 and it is pending befo…
Lankford Wants to Keep Everyone Honest with Wind Tax Credit Phaseout
“This is keeping everyone honest.” Sen. James Lankford.
Whether Sen. James Lankford’s amendment to finally phase out federal government tax subsidies to the Wind Industry is successfully passed, we’ll have to wait and see what the U.S. Senate does….
Sen. Lankford Moves to End Renewable Energy Tax Credits
Oklahoma U.S. Sen. James Lankford has introduced an amendment to the Senate energy bill to completely end federal renewable energy production tax credits by the end of 2031. Under his amendment, 2019 would be the last year a project could qualify for a…
Oklahoma, Nation Adding Wind Energy at Near Record Pace
The American Wind Energy Association (AWEA) released its Fourth Quarter 2015 Market Report this week showing the industry had the second strongest quarter ever. During the fourth quarter alone, the American wind industry installed 5,001 megawatts (MW)….