Category: Wind Energy

National Clean Energy Week observed by Senator

  Oklahoma State Sen. Casey Murdock is a big fan of Oklahoma’s all-of-the-above approach to energy development. He writes about it in a column highlighting the National Clean Energy Week. Click here for McCarville Report  

Headlines of other energy stories

** Donald Trump’s on the warpath against his mortal enemy again, and it made a big splash on social media. The former president raged during a campaign speech in South Carolina that “windmills” are driving whales “crazy.” “Windmills are causing whales to die in numbers never seen before. Nobody does anything about that,” he declared. ** Ford Motor Co. …

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Quick energy reads

** Two top Republican lawmakers are probing Sher Edling, a California-based law firm, over its dark money-fueled climate litigation against oil companies, Fox News Digital has learned. In a letter sent to Sher Edling partners Vic Sher and Matt Edling on Monday morning, Senate Commerce Committee ranking member Ted Cruz, R-Texas, and House Oversight Committee Chairman James …

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Court changes mind—allows wind transmission line to move forward

  The Grain Belt Express Transmission Line is moving forward again after an Illinois Appeals Court lifted a court order that had stalled its progress in the state. The line carries wind-powered electricity from Southwest Kansas and across Missouri and into Illinois and Indiana. The ruling allowing its movement forward came after the 5th District …

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Xcel Energy gets funding for long-term energy storage projects

  Xcel Energy announced that it has received a grant of up to $70 million from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE). The award will partially fund two long duration energy storage systems in Minnesota and Colorado. Each demonstration-scale system will be a 10 megawatt/1,000 megawatt-hour iron-air battery developed by Massachusetts-based Form Energy. The batteries …

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Energy fast reads

** California has sued five of the largest oil and gas companies in the world, alleging that they engaged in a “decades-long campaign of deception” about climate change and the risks posed by fossil fuels that has forced the state to spend tens of billions of dollars to address environmental-related damages. ** The Environmental Protection …

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Oil leader calls for statewide tax on wind and solar energy production

  The head of the Petroleum Alliance of Oklahoma says if the state is thinking about an increase in its gross production tax on oil and gas, then it’s time for a statewide tax on wind and solar energy production. Brook A. Simmons, President of the Alliance responded to Senate President Pro tempore Greg Treat’s …

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Quick reads

** Police arrested six protesters Tuesday who tried to disrupt the start of land-based testing for New Jersey’s first offshore wind farm. But the work progressed anyway. ** A former leader at three top U.S. automakers has shared his no-nonsense take on America’s attempt to transition to electric vehicles (EVs). Bob Lutz, former executive at General Motors, Ford …

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Wind power mystery puzzles Southwest Power Pool leaders

  Technicians at the Southwest Power Pool, the electricity power grid of which Oklahoma is a member, admit they faced a renewable energy mystery a few months ago. And it remains an unsolved puzzle. It was in June when the Power Pool’s energy production from wind nearly stalled totally. The entire wind production from the …

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Quick energy stories

** Stellantis NV, the owner of Jeep and Chrysler, reached a partial agreement with the United Auto Workers union on Monday as a strike deadline looms that could cost the auto industry more than $1 billion. ** The South Dakota Public Utilities Commission rejected a permit application Monday for a proposed carbon dioxide pipeline through the …

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