This week’s heat wave in Texas and resulting request by the electric grid operators for customers to conserve their electricity also raised questions about the state’s reliability on wind energy. Fox Business News reported that some Texas leaders were skeptical of a lack of any regulation for the renewable power source’s reliability and how …
Category: Wind Energy
Wind industry takes another hit
Just a few weeks after Oklahoma regulators were told of what was described as a “dangerous windfarm” with damaged and dilapidated wind turbines in the Panhandle, the wind industry was rocked with the closing of a wind blade manufacturing plant in Aberdeen, South Dakota. More than 300 workers and their families will lose their …
Energy news in brief
** U.S. gasoline stockpiles have jumped to the highest in three-months, while a measure of demand fell to a three-month low, according to a government report published Wednesday. ** The U.S. Energy Information Administration forecasted West Texas Intermediate crude prices for the rest of the year will be at an average of $61.85 a barrel, up …
Federal judge rules against Osage County wind farm operator
A Tulsa federal refused to reverse part of a Magistrate Judge’s opinions against Osage Wind, LLC in a lawsuit filed 7 years ago over its installation of 84 wind turbines in Oklahoma’s Osage County. U.S. Judge Gregory K. Frizzell issued his recent ruling in the case where Osage Wind’s construction of the wind farm …
Writer says wind “myths” hurt Kansas wind industry
One writer who describes herself as a renewable energy expert contends “myths” are hurting the wind energy economy in Kansas. Writing in the Kansas Reflector, Dorothy Barnett says the benefits of the wind industry to local economies are “often overshadowed by fear about wind energy. “These misleading campaigns are costing rural communities millions of …
Regulators to target dangerous Panhandle wind farm
Oklahoma Corporation Commissioners are expected to issue an order by week’s end targeting the dangerous wind farm in the Panhandle that came to their attention on Wednesday. Commissioners were presented with stunning pictures of damaged and burned wind turbines at the KODE Novus I and II wind farms located south of Guymon next to …
Dangerous wind farm discovered in Oklahoma Panhandle
“A very dangerous situation to the public.” It’s the description from Oklahoma Corporation Commission official Brandy Wreath regarding a Panhandle wind farm that has been allowed to exist with what he called “dangerous and dilapidated” wind turbines for several years. Some are burned out. Others have turbine hanging from their towers where there are …
Texas stops Chinese billionaire from building wind farm
Texas legislators have apparently put a stop to the plans of a Chinese billionaire to build a wind farm in their state. A company owned by the billionaire had proposed the wind farm to be built about 200 miles northwest of San Antonio but legislators passed a bill to stop the project. Click here …
Liberty wants to increase utility rates in Kansas and Missouri
Kansas and Missouri customers of Liberty Utilities could be hit with a rate hike while it’s unclear if the company’s customers in Oklahoma and Arkansas will see an increase in their bills. Liberty filed requests with the Missouri Public Service Commission to increase rates for customers in Missouri and Kansas. The Joplin Globe reported …
European wind farm operator sues state of Texas
A Germany utility with operations in Texas has filed suit against the state for its handling of the power markets during the February winter storm. Wind-park owner RWE contends the intervention in the power markets by the Public Utility Commission of Texas cost the firm nearly $500 million. The lawsuit was also filed against …