Oklahoma Corporation Commissioners are to meet Thursday to consider actions that will affect the rates paid by utility consumers. During the 1:30 p.m. meeting, the three commissioners will hold a public hearing on OGE’s application for a fuel adjustment clause case (PUD2023-000055). The hearing will also focus on the utility’s financial hedging program. A …
** The U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) decreased its forecast for U.S. coal exports following the collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge and the resulting closure of the Port of Baltimore. In its April Short-Term Energy Outlook (STEO), EIA reduced its forecasts for U.S. coal exports for April by 33% and for May by 20% from previous …
Scott Mitchell and Jerry Bohnen take a look at how the Oklahoma State Fair coliseum-naming rights controversy focused media attention on the struggle between consumer groups and local utilities over the deployment of tens of millions of dollars in federal funds destined for the modernization of Oklahoma’s transmission grid. Link to this article: https://www.news9.com/story/661585ac1b4a5c7f56a8d163/mitchelltalks-energy:-colossal-coliseum–chaos
Crude oil prices suffered a dollar a barrel loss in Tuesday’s trading as Middle East countries encountered resistance to their proposed peace in Gaza where Israel is still attempting to eliminate Hamas. There are existing concerns that without an end to the fighting, Iran, OPEC’s third-largest producer, might be drawn into the war. US benchmark …
A report by a Tulsa TV station shows that history is catching up with the state in terms of pollution of the Arkansas River. KTUL TV revealed this week how former oil wells, drilled in the middle of the river and now abandoned, are also leaking and polluting the river. One petroleum engineer …
Rep. Eric Roberts, R-Oklahoma City, was recently appointed to the Energy & Environment Committee for the Council of State Governments (CSG) Southern Office by House Speaker Charles McCall, R-Atoka. Roberts was elected to the Oklahoma House of Representatives in 2020 after nearly three decades as a business owner and developer. He served on the MAPS …
Oklahoma Corporation Commissioners Todd Hiett and Kim David did not immediately respond to the latest filing by Commissioner Bob Anthony critical of a one-page audit of the bond costs by Public Service Company of Oklahoma regarding its bond costs to cover 2021 storm costs. But a day later, both Hiett and David let Brandy …
Ask Russell Ray why he’s running for the Oklahoma Corporation Commission and he chuckles, but turns serious quickly. It becomes apparent, he is a candidate who believes in more openness on the commission, more accountability of utilities and more protection for the ratepayers and no more career politicans on the commission. He is also …
** – Jamie Dimon said US delays of liquefied natural gas projects were done for political reasons to pacify those who believe oil and gas projects should simply be stopped — a position he calls “wrong” and “enormously naïve.” The head of JPMorgan Chase & Co. made the comments Monday in his annual shareholder letter, in …
Oklahoma Corporation Commissioner Bob Anthony lashed out again this week at another one-page audit over hundreds of millions of dollars in 2021 winter storm Uri bond costs by Public Service Company of Oklahoma. In a filing with the commission, Anthony derided the audit filed last week by Commission Chairman Todd Hiett and accused him …
