February 2, 2022 archive

SWEPCO files for approval of Louisiana solar project

  Arkansas regulators are being asked by Southwestern Electric Power Co. to approve 72.5 megawatts of solar energy for the company by December 2024. The Arkansas Democrat Gazette reports SWEPCO wants to build the project about 20 miles north of Shreveport, Louisiana. Click here for Arkansas Democrat Gazette.

Nervous Texans await winter storm and hope it’s not a repeat of a year ago

  This winter weather stretching from Texas all the way northeast to Maine will be another challenge to the energy infrastructure in Texas. Temperatures are set to fall into the teens in Dallas and Fort Worth and the metroplex could get a mix of ice and snow through Thursday. While nearly two-thirds of Texas are …

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Thursday headlines of other energy stories

** U.S. Senator John Barrasso (R-WY), ranking member of the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources (ENR), along with Senator Mike Lee (R-UT), ranking member of the ENR Subcommittee on Public Lands, Forests, and Mining, sent a letter to Secretary of the Interior, Deb Haaland, opposing the United States Geological Survey’s (USGS) recent proposal to remove helium and …

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