Attorney General Gentner Drummond and several parties representing customer interests have entered into a joint stipulation and settlement agreement with Public Service Company of Oklahoma (PSO) regarding its pending application for approval of six capacity projects. The settlement paves the way for a decrease in PSO customer rates beginning in 2026. The project …
Confirmation that Oklahoma is the leading candidate for a major U.S. solar panel and cell factory came this week from Italian utility Enel SpA. The company issued a statement about the plant that will be one of the largest to produce solar cells in the U.S. “We have identified Oklahoma as the leading candidate …
Oklahoma Congressman Kevin Hern and other Republicans on the House Ways and Means Committee voted this week to reserve the Biden administration’s suspension of tariffs on solar panels from four Southeast Asian nations. The vote was 26-13 and Democrat Terri Sewell joined the GOP majority in approving the measure that sets up the resolution …
Oklahoma is reported to be the leading candidate for a solar-panel manufacturing facility that Enel North America wants to build. It already has the support of Gov. Kevin Stitt who is urging the legislature to support an undisclosed incentive package to land the site that could result in 1,500 new jobs in northeast Oklahoma …
** The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) announced on Tuesday that it has approved the construction of a 732-mile high-voltage transmission line across the Western U.S. that will help transport renewable energy. The transmission line, called the TransWest Express Project, will run from south-central Wyoming through northwestern Colorado and central Utah before reaching its endpoint in southern Nevada, …
Oklahoma Corporation Commissioners were told Tuesday that ratepayers of Public Service Company will eventually see a rate reduction through the company’s proposed $2.4 billion acquisition of solar and wind farms in Kansas and the Texas Panhandle. “The benefits are immense,” testified Matt Horeled, Vice President of Regulatory and Finance for PSO during a hearing …
Oklahoma Corporation Commissioners will hold a special meeting Tuesday to consider a settlement of the issues some groups opposed in the $2.4 billion renewable resources project by Public Service Company of Oklahoma. A filing of a stipulation agreement was made and signed by PSO, the Attorney General, the Oklahoma Energy Industrial Consumers, Walmart and …
** The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is set as early as next week to propose new rules to spur sweeping cuts in vehicle emissions pollution that will push automakers towards a big increase in electric vehicle sales, sources told Reuters. ** Two former U.S. ambassadors are sounding the alarm on the increasing number of green energy projects nationwide being developed with the involvement …
The eastern Kansas town of De Soto will not only be home to the $4 billion Panasonic battery plant, but soon to what could be the largest solar project in the state of Kansas. The Panasonic plant is the one sought by Oklahoma last year but the final decision went to Kansas. Now the …
The $2.47 billion renewable energy plan proposed by Public Service Company didn’t go through the regulatory process as smoothly as some expected. It ran into opposition. However, an apparent settlement stipulation has been reached by some of the groups that opposed the utility’s request for cost recovery approval from the Corporation Commission. A Thursday …
