** The Sierra Club alleges in a lawsuit that a major Illinois coal plant has operated “illegally” for more than a decade without an operating permit from the state as required under the Clean Air Act. ** The Biden administration is finalizing more stringent efficiency requirements for both window air conditioners and portable air cleaner, the first set of …
Category: Wind Energy
Kansas legislature considers control over wind tower blinking lights
With 44 wind farms in the state of Kansas, the Kansas legislature continues working on possible legislation to do something about the growing complaints of the blinking red wind tower lights at night. Residents don’t like them and want controls about when and how often they blink, disturbing the night-time sky above the state. …
Quick energy reads
** The 2023 Annual Energy Outlook from the Energy Information Administration (EIA) finds that U.S. oil production may even increase between now and 2050 even as clean energy sources like wind and solar power increase dramatically as well. The analysts say that U.S. demand for oil and gas is likely to remain remarkably steady for decades. …
New Mexico gets another wind tower plant
While Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy came out of an economic “hibernation” this week with plans to reopen wind turbine plants in Hutchinson, Kansas and Fort Madison, Iowa, a Texas company announced plans to locate a wind-tower plant in New Mexico. Perhaps another sign of a resurgence in the wind industry. Arcosa Inc. announced its …
Newspaper blasts NPR for one-sided report on big oil and wind energy in Wyoming
National Public Radio, the government-financed communications group with a reputation for its liberal approach to news, was caught in the act in its recent reporting about the oil industry financing anti-wind farm efforts in Wyoming. The Cowboy State Daily did some digging on what NPR claimed in its report and found big oil was …
Siemens to reopen wind plants in Kansas and Iowa
The “hibernation” Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy announced last year at its wind production plants in Kansas and Iowa has ended. The company is in the process of reopening the operations that were forced to close because of slow wind turbine orders. The company initiated the resumption of production at its Fort Madison, Iowa …
Grain Belt Express line wins approval in Illinois
The Grain Bell Express high-voltage line, one designed to carry wind-powered electricity from Southwest Kansas to East Coast states recently won approval from the Illinois Commerce Commission. The ICC issued a final ruling granting a Certificate of Public Convenience and Necessity to Invenergy of Chicago to build the line to carry the electricity across …
Oklahoma House okays bill targeting disposal of wind farm blades
A bill requiring financial security by a renewable energy recycling operation won support this week in the Oklahoma House of Representatives. HB 2359 targets businesses that might dispose of or recycle wind turbine blades and was passed in the House on a 93-0 vote after its title was struck in committee. The measure will …
Wind farm planned for Nowata County in NE Oklahoma
A new wind farm is planned in northeast Oklahoma near the state line with Kansas. Apex Clean Energy plans to lease 45,000 acres of Nowata County land for the Hickory Creek Project which will entail between 100 and 150 wind turbines along with solar and battery components reported News on 6 TV News. The project will …
More U.S. power capacity to come from wind and solar
All of those wind farms in Oklahoma helped increase the amount of planned new electric-generating capacity from wind, solar and battery storage in the U.S. this year. The U.S. Energy Information Administration reports the three technologies account of 825 of the new, utility-scale generating capacity that developers plan to bring online in the nation. …