Texas regulators have issued the largest air pollution permit in the country to a developer building a massive and sprawling ranch of gas power plants and data centers in west Texas. Pacifico Energy, an investor-owned infrastructure company, called its 7.65 gigawatt GW Ranch in Pecos County “the largest power project in the United …
Oklahoma’s share of federal funding for low-income Home Energy Assistance was assured this week when Congress passed funding for the entire national program with a $20 million increase in funding from current levels. It was the first funding increase the LIHEAP program has received since FY2024 and comes as affordability takes center stage in the …
Coal-mining giant Alliance Resource Partners, L.P. in Tulsa announced it had a stunning and soaring gain of adjusted earnings in the fourth quarter of 2025. The company reported fourth quarter financial and operating results which produced a 406.2% increase in Adjusted EBITDA of $191.2 million. Its year-over-year Adjusted earnings gained 54.1%. Alliance recorded $82.7 million …
Expand Energy is planning a mid-February release of its 2025 fourth quarter and full year financial results. The Oklahoma City company will release the report after the market closes on February 17. Leadership will discuss the results the next day during a conference call scheduled to start at 8 a.m. CST. Expand acquired Southwestern Energy …
Two years after an Oklahoma judge ruled the state’s 2022 Energy Discrimination Act or “anti-ESG” was unconstitutional, a ruling still on appeal with the State Supreme Court, a federal judge in Texas has made the same kind of ruling on the state’s similar law. The Energy Discrimination Act in Oklahoma was created in response to …
A new division is being created at the Oklahoma Corporation Commission—Commission Support Services. Commissioners unanimously approved the suggestion by Administrative Director Jim Marshall who told the three regulators, “ I’d like to express that there is a suggestion for a structural change that would better enable you as individual statewide elected officials to communicate both directly …
Nearly $1.5 million in fines were assessed by trucking enforcement in Oklahoma during the last two months of 2025. Sounds like a huge amount but Mark Willingham with the Corporation Commission’s Transportation Division reported this week the $1,489,984 in fines and citations was normal. The fines were the result of 5,283 separate citations. The Transportation …
The recent winter storm that rolled into Oklahoma dumping up to a foot of snow in some regions resulted in $8 million spent by the State Transportation Department road crews in clearing roads and highways. ODOT Executive Director Tim Gatz briefed transportation commissioners this week on the agency’s response to the recent winter storm which was …
The construction of more Google data centers in 2025 in Oklahoma will be part of the company’s massive spending intentions this year following a stunning fourth quarter and full year earnings report. Not only did Google’s parent company Alphabet report a 48% jump in fourth quarter revenue, but the big tech company plans to spend …
** House lawmakers on Tuesday grilled members of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission about electric affordability, grid reliability and the agency’s reviews of natural gas pipelines and liquefied natural gas projects. ** Xcel Energy says Permian Basin electricity demand driven by the oil and gas industry, new data centers, and nuclear manufacturing facilities threatens to outpace generation …