Category: Solar Energy in Oklahoma

Tribe plans 4,000 acre solar farm in southwest Colorado

  Four-thousand acres. It’s the size of a solar farm proposed by the Ute Mountain Ute Tribe based in Towaoc, Colorado. Located in the very southwest corner of Colorado, the Ute Mountain Ute Reservation wants to feature 2.2 million solar panels in the more than $1 billion project. It will be eight miles long and one …

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70,000 solar panels will be completed on Tesla’s Austin factory

  Tesla’s 10-million-square-foot factory in East Austin, Texas is installing an estimated 70,000 solar panels to help provide electrical power to the EV manufacturing plant. At the same time, the EV maker has shifted more of its battery cell production from a German factory to Gigfactory Texas according to Electrek. As a result, the first …

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Solar farm moratorium extended another 6 months in Wichita, Kansas

    County Commissioners in Wichita, Kansas have extended their temporary ban on new commercial solar farms. They originally created a six-month ban on energy projects last September to give them time to revise rules for commercial solar farms. One of the latest proposed farms was a 103-megawatt farm called thee Chisholm Trail Solar Energy …

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Food Bank in OKC goes solar power

  The Oklahoma City-based Regional Food Bank recently finished construction of a $1.6 million project to get some of its electricity from solar power. Bank officials estimate it will result in millions of dollars in utility costs, equating to millions of meals, reported KOCO TV News. Click here for KOCO TV News    

Writer says wind farms are not farms…but industrial sites

    As a fight between Oklahoma’s oil and gas industry and the renewable power groups took shape in recent days, it would appear more governments around the U.S. are pulling in the reins on the growth of wind and solar farms. With 40 years under his belt in the US energy industry, David Blackmon …

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Legislators have yet to hear how much a renewable energy tax would raise in Oklahoma

  The tax bill targeting Oklahoma’s renewable energy industry has yet to make it to the floor of the State House a week after Speaker Charles McCall proposed the measure in response to a lack of movement on the Right of First Refusal power for utilities. The House Impact study on fiscal impact of the …

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Oil and gas fight with wind is resurrected in Oklahoma

  Oklahoma House Speaker Charles McCall’s push for an electricity production tax on renewable energy sources in the state just renewed an age-old fight between the oil and gas industry and the firms behind wind and solar operations His creation of the tax in the form of HB2950 stunned the wind and solar industry in …

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Oklahoma farms to receive USDA funding for renewable energy projects

  Four Oklahoma farms are among an estimated 400 across the nation set to receive part of the USDA’s $144 million Rural Energy for America Program. The program was announced Monday by Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack who said the project, with the cooperative of the Energy Department, will help small and medium-sized farms save money …

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House speaker wants tax hike for renewable energy in Oklahoma—-targets NextEra Energy

  The fight over ROFR or Right of First Refusal at the State Capitol in Oklahoma just became a hardball game, and it’s resulted in something of a firestorm for the state’s renewable energy industry. House Speaker Charles McCall, reportedly “furious” over the opposition by NextEra Energy to a possible ROFR bill in the legislature …

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Energy quick reads

** A cellular outage early on Thursday hit thousands of AT&T users in the United States, disrupting calls and text messages as well as emergency services in major cities including San Francisco. More than 50,000 incidents were reported around 7:00 a.m. ET, according to data from outage tracking website Downdetector.com. ** The Supreme Court’s conservative majority seemed …

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