Far Southeast Kansas is about to get a wind farm operation even though some residents are against the project in Crawford and Bourbon Counties near cities such as Pittsburg and Girard. Crawford County Commissioners have approved the renewable energy project which is in development by Apex Clean Energy, Inc., a firm with operations it …
A wind-blade manufacturing plant in Little Rock, Arkansas will be closing soon, putting an estimated 500 employees out of work. As the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette reported, LM Wind Power announced this week to shut down operations, not because of the COVID-19 pandemic but because of declining demand for its giant blades. The LM workers in Little …
Reports suggest that NextEra Energy, the Florida-based firm with numerous wind farm operations throughout Oklahoma might be in the hunt to acquire Kansas City-based Evergy. Other utility giants are also said to be interested in such an acquisition including American Electric Power, parent of PSO in Oklahoma and St. Louis-based Ameren. One report indicated …
The transmission line to carry southwest Kansas wind powered electricity across Missouri and into Illinois still has life after a court ruling this week. The Missouri Supreme Court upheld the Missouri Court of Appeals Eastern District’s 2019 decision reaffirming a PSC decision that approved a certificate of need and necessity for the Grain Belt …
County Commissioners in St. Joseph, Missouri have approved a total ban on commercial wind energy farms in their county. Buchanan County Commissioners took the move after their Planning and Zoning Commission recommended the action. The Planning and Zoning Commission held a work session on Feb. 19 and recommended the total ban by a …
Wichita-based Textron Aviation has signed a 20-year agreement with utility provider Evergy to receive 55 megawatts of power for its two Kansas plants in Independence and Wichita from a new wind farm under construction in Manhattan, Kansas. The Soldier Creek Wind Farm will generate 300 MW and is expected to be operational by the …
ALLETE Clean Energy has expanded its holdings of wind energy projects in Oklahoma by buying the 303 megawatt Caddo Wind farm in the western part of the state. The Minnesota-based company made the purchase from Apex Clean Energy and plans to sell power to three Fortune 500 customers to be announced at a later date. The …
More than 100 bases have been finished in preparation for construction of a massive wind farm in eastern New Mexico. Xcel Energy says most of the components for the Sagamore Wind Project have started t o arrive by rail and construction of the turbines could begin in late April. Arrival of the parts came at …
The fate of two bills focusing on construction of wind turbines near private airports in the state lies in both the House and Senate in Oklahoma. One targets the wind industry and would create a setback of wind turbines while another targets so-called “sham airports.” Rep. Carl Newton’s HB3296 would prohibit the construction of a …
We’ve all heard the joke about why it’s so windy in Kansas…because Nebraska “s—-” and Oklahoma “blows.” But one environmental group says Kansas, Iowa and North Dakota now generate enough wind power every year to meet more than half of their energy needs. The observation was made by the Natural Resources Defense Council which wrote that, …
