November 6, 2023 archive

Critics of Biden’s hydrogen hub plan call it “loony”

  The effort by the Biden administration to pour $7 billion into development of regional hydrogen hubs, of which Oklahoma was not recently chosen, has its critics. Some have described the hydrogen hubs as a “key pillar of Bidenomics” and Oklahoma joined with Arkansas and Louisiana in hopes of being picked as one of several …

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AARP says PSO rate hike would have been higher

  The Oklahoma AARP says 5,000 of its members helped lower PSO’s original rate hike request which was eventually lowered last Friday and approved by the Oklahoma Corporation Commission. The members sent complaints to the commission when Public Service Company originally filed a $294 million rate hike request. However, the comments in opposition to the …

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Oklahoma to get more snowfall this winter?

  With the arrival of El Nino, the discussion in recent days is which states will get more snowfall this winter and those that won’t. Oklahoma? According to the Climate Prediction Center, a division of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, will get more snow as El Nino lasts into spring. A map released by …

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Kansas regulators won’t open winter storm gas invoices

  The allegations of “price gouging” against natural gas suppliers in Kansas has turned into an open records battle. The Kansas Corporation Commission has denied the request of an attorney who wanted to know how much suppliers were paid during the 2021 Winter Storm Uri, the same storm that paralyzed Texas, resulted in rolling blackouts …

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Short reads

** Taking a page from the “throw-the-bums-out” script in politics, Mainers are poised to vote on an unprecedented plan to rid themselves of the state’s two largest electric utilities and start with a clean slate. ** American Electric Power discloses that it is in negotiations with federal regulators to resolve allegations about the utility’s role in the bribery scandal …

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