The more than $2 billion wind project called the Grain Belt Express is once again facing opposition from legislators in Missouri. The project, designed to carry wind-powered electricity from Kansas to Ilinois and Indiana could could be unplugged, according to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. On Monday, a House panel heard testimony from Rep. Jim Hansen, R-Frankford, …
Construction is underway on two wind farms in southwest Missouri. Some of the turbines are going up at a site about 20 miles north of Joplin, Missouri. They are part of a 600-megawatt wind project in Southwest Missouri and Southeast Kansas for Liberty Utilities-Empire District. Some of the customers of the District are in northeast …
NextEra Energy Resources, the company that has wind farm operations in Oklahoma and encountered problems with plans for two more has to wait for a decision from South Dakota regulators regarding a wind farm project there. The South Dakota Public Utilities Commission deferred making a decision on whether to temporarily waive an energy company’s requirement …
Months after American Electric Power’s Public Service Company of Oklahoma canceled a controversial wind farm project across northern Oklahoma, AEP has done the same thing after encountering tough restrictions in Michigan. Melissa McHenry, director of external communications with American Electric Power, told the Muskegon Chronicle that the project was no longer viable because of several …
County Commissioners in Beatrice, Nebraska voted this week to reject a plan for a new wind farm. All five members of the Hamilton County Board voted against approval of a condition-use permit for the project, according to the Omaha World-Herald. The permit was sought by Hamilton County Wind, which is a wholly owned subsidiary of …
A Missouri state appeals court has ruled in favor of regulators over rural landowners who were fighting the Grain Belt Express Transmission line to carry wind-powered electricity from Kansas to Illinois. The line runs across northern Missouri and in a ruling on Tuesday, the Missouri Court of Appeals Eastern District turned aside claims that the …
Work was scheduled to begin this week on a $900 million Xcel Energy wind farm that will eventually be the largest to ever be constructed in the state of New Mexico. Located near Portales, the 522-megawatt Sagamore Wind Project is expected to be completed late next year and sprawl across 100,000 acres in the …
Radio Iowa reports a Virginia-based company is announcing plans to build up to 85 wind turbines in central Iowa starting next year. Holly McCoy-Nelson, spokeswoman for Apex Clean Energy, says the development will be called the Great Pathfinder Wind Project. “We are working towards having a buildable project in Boone and Hamilton counties,” McCoy-Nelson says. “They’re …
People who live near some wind turbines in Nebraska want tighter restrictions on further wind farm development. Calling themselves Prairie Wind Watchers, they’re asking Gage County officials to adopt the regulations according to the Beatrice Daily Sun. One of their major concerns is an effort to increase the setback required for wind turbines from homes and …
Another county in Iowa has voted to adopt an indefinite moratorium on new wind farms. It happened this week in Hardin County, a county located in central Iowa where the county seat is Eldora. County supervisors voted 3-0 in support of a resolution placing the moratorium “effective immediately and indefinitely” on wind turbine permits. The …
