Public Service Company of Oklahoma isn’t the only big utility to reach agreement and become part-owner of some Invenergy wind farms. WEC Energy Group based in Milwaukee, Wisconsin has announced it will increase its ownership interest from 80% to 90% in three Midwest wind farms run by Invenergy. But the total investment is only $118 …
The issue of old wind turbine blades and how to dispose of them is becoming a growing challenge for the wind industry, as well as states. As we’ve reported recently, the state of Wyoming is considering a ban of disposing the blades in landfills. E & E news reports one company in Iowa has …
Take a look at the above picture. It’s what the wind farm locations look like in Oklahoma and Texas according to the newest wind turbine database released by a number of federal agencies. The United States Wind Turbine Database (USWTDB) provides the locations of land-based and offshore wind turbines in the United States, corresponding wind …
There’s growing concern in the Wyoming House of Representatives about the disposal of old and outdated wind turbine blades. The House voted this week to introduce a bill to ban the disposal of the old blades in Wyoming. House Bill 217 would make it a misdemeanor to dispose of such blades in Wyoming and would impose …
NextEra Energy, the company that battled Oklahoma over its wind farms and interference with low-level military aircraft training in 2019 is facing another legal battle. But this one is in Kansas where it filed suit after being denied a conditional use permit for a commercial wind farm in Reno County. The Hutchinson News reported the …
Oklahoma’s latest wind farm to start generating electricity is the 100-megawatt Wildhorse Mountain Wind Facility in Pushmataha County. Wildhorse is owned by Southern Power which announced this week the wind farm became operational. Power from the operation is being supplied to the Arkansas Electric Cooperative Corp. under a 20-year contract. The farm is comprised of …
American Electric Power Co. Inc., one of the nation’s largest utility companies and highest-profile emitters, is facing yet another multibillion-dollar test to see how fast it can shift from coal to renewables. This time, it looks like AEP might succeed according to a report by Energy Wire. A roughly $2 billion proposal in the …
The wind industry is one of the strongest supported renewable energy industries in the U.S. but there’s one matter that is a challenge to the industry. What to do with old wind blades that are no longer usable and to find a way to recycle them. As Bloomberg News reported this week, an estimated 8,000 …
Many of those deals cut by Amazon, Facebook, Walmart and numerous other national companies for electricity from wind farms in Oklahoma make up a new report on 2019’s Top 10 Large Energy Buyers. Two of the top-ten companies have major power purchasing contracts in Oklahoma. The report from the Renewable Energy Buyers Alliance showed …
A subsidiary of AEP, the parent company of Public Service Company of Oklahoma has signed a power purchase agreement with Evergy from its new Flat Ridge 3 wind project being built in southern Kansas close to the Oklahoma state line. AEP Renewables signed the deal to buy power from the 62-wind turbine farm near …
