Xcel Energy says it plans to build three solar energy operations in the Permian Basin area of southeast New Mexico and west Texas as the company shifts toward renewables. The company said the solar generating sites will be in Hobbs, New Mexico and Earth, Texas. The projects will augment existing power plants—the Cunningham Generating …
Category: Solar Energy in Oklahoma
Solar power fell short for OGE in its $331 million rate hike project
Documents and testimony in the $331 million rate hike request made by Oklahoma Gas and Electric with Oklahoma regulators show the utility encountered challenges in attempting to obtain new power through solar energy. The utility is seeking the rate hike to cover the replacement of aging power generating units at its Horseshoe Lake Power Plant …
House failed to override Biden’s solar panel veto
Even though all five Oklahoma Representatives in the U.S. House stood locked in their support of resuming solar power tariffs against China and other Asia manufacturers, it wasn’t enough to override President Biden’s veto of a Congressional review Act. The House fell short this week of the required two-thirds majority on a 214-205 vote, …
Energy briefs
** U.S. natural gas production is expected to rise until 2050, according to a report released Tuesday by the Energy Information Administration (EIA), which said most of the demand fueling that increase will be driven by exports to foreign markets. U.S. domestic gas demand will stay flat or decline as renewables come online, the report found. But …
Couple stunned over cost of solar panels for their home
Obvious sticker shock hit one couple in Del City after the installation of solar panels for their home. KFOR TV news recently reported the story. Click here for KFOR TV
Enel makes formal announcement of solar manufacturing site in Oklahoma
Enel North America, the company that built 13 wind farms in Oklahoma, formally announced Monday it had officially chosen Inola in northeastern Oklahoma as the location for its nearly $1.8 billion solar panel manufacturing operation. The plant will be built at the Tulsa Port of Inola and the site had been widely promoted by …
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** A California city will make an exception to its natural gas ban for world-famous chef José Andrés, after the landlords for the chef’s planned restaurant warned Andrés may pull out over the regulation. After the owners of the mall where Andrés is set to open the restaurant threatened to sue the city, Palo Alto …
Gov. Stitt works on getting federal approval for giant solar plant in Oklahoma
Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt has been in talks with Biden administration officials in recent days about speeding the permitting of a new Enel North America solar plant near Pryor, a project that the governor says will be the largest economic development investment in state history. Under the project, the state has approved $180 million …
NextEra plans to sell oil and gas operations in Texas and Pennsylvania
NextEra Energy Partners LP, the company known in Oklahoma for its wind farm developments, says it’s planning to sell its STX Texas midstream assets in the Eagle Ford Shale and Pennsylvania’s Meade natural gas pipeline. The company wants to streamline finances and become more of a fully renewables-based company according to John Ketchum, NextEra’s …
Biden vetoes GOP effort to restore solar panel tariffs
President Biden delivered a blow to Oklahoma’s congressional delegation and others that sent him a resolution to reinstate tariffs on solar panel imports from Southeast Asia. Oklahoma’s members of the U.S. House and Senate voted in support of the resolution that represented a long-running fight with the White House about punishing China over trade …