Wind power company, EDF Renewables North America inks another big sale of its electrical power. The company, with major wind farm operations in Oklahoma signed a deal this week to provide power from one of its Texas wind farms to German chemicals producer BASF. BASF agreed to buy 35 MW of wind power capacity …
The wind industry made huge gains in 2020 and a new study by the American Clean Power Association said it was a record year as there was an 85% increase in new wind power capacity over 2019. Developers in Oklahoma, Texas and other wind-power states added enough megawatts of capacity to power millions of …
Environmental groups have gone to court challenging a $500 million transmission powerline to carry wind-powered electricity from the wind farms of Iowa into Wisconsin. They want renewable power but not the way it’s being transmitted. The Cardinal-Hickory Creek line is the target of the lawsuit filed this week against the Rural Utilities Service and …
Wind power company Excel Energy announced it is one of the first U.S. energy providers to reach 10,000 megawatts of wind energy capacity, a milestone powered by the company’s 10 new wind projects in Colorado, Texas, New Mexico and the Upper Midwest. The projects were completed in the past few years and the company …
County Commissioners in Hutchinson, Kansas have voted to put more restrictions on wind farm developments including a 3,000-foot setback for wind turbines from homes. Reno County Commissioners also decided this week to set a mandatory 3-mile setback around state and federal wildlife properties, reported the Hutchinson News. The newspaper said no decision was made on …
ALLETE Clean Energy says it has made two more renewable energy sale agreements with two more Fortune 500 companies to receive power from its Caddo wind site under construction in western Oklahoma. Oshkosh Corporation and Hormel Foods agreed to receive a combined 100 megawatts from the wind farm once it is operational. The …
In a court case going back nearly 8 years, a Tulsa Federal Judge has ordered wind farm developer Osage Wind to turn over documents it contended were privileged communication with its legal representation. Osage Wind was sued by the Osage Minerals Council after it began construction of a wind farm in Osage County in …
Texas remains far and above the number one wind industry state in the U.S. as the industry recorded its strongest year ever last year with record growth. New construction in Oklahoma ranked third in the nation. The wind industry nearly doubled installations over those in 2019 and built nearly 17 gigawatts of capacity. The …
A report in the Texas Standard raises the growing question of what to do with old wind turbine blades, especially in a state that is ranked number one in wind power production in the U.S. In Casper, Wyoming, more than 1,100 blades are buried in a “wind turbine graveyard” built in the past two …
Siemens, the German-based company that provided many of the wind turbines in Oklahoma announced it plans to slash nearly a sixth of its workers worldwide. The company said the layoffs will be in its gas and power division and represents a sign of a worldwide shift to green energy. Bloomberg reported that Siemens will …
