** President Joe Biden will restore two sprawling national monuments in Utah that have been at the center of a long-running public lands dispute, and a separate marine conservation area in New England that recently has been used for commercial fishing. Environmental protections at all three monuments had been stripped by former President Donald Trump. ** A …
Category: Solar Energy in Oklahoma
Counties in Eastern Kansas plan restrictions on solar farms
Two counties in eastern Kansas are considering new regulations putting restrictions on solar farms after NextEra Energy Resources announced plans for one of the largest solar farms in the nation. E & E News reports that leaders in Johnson and Douglas Counties, locations near Lawrence and Kansas City were prompted by NextEra’s proposed 320-megawatt …
Call for more solar energy development in Oklahoma
A leader of a solar energy organization in Oklahoma says it’s time the country’s energy policy came out of the Dark Ages. The call comes from J.W. Peters who is president of Solar Power of Oklahoma and wrote about it in an op-ed piece for The Oklahoman. Click here for The Oklahoman.
Solar panel shortage raises concerns in New Mexico
Whether it’s a shipping bottleneck or tariffs on China’s manufactured solar panels, the shortage of the panels is raising serious electrical power supply questions in New Mexico. Public Service of Mexico told regulators in recent days that the global solar panel supply problem is interfering with the firm’s plans to abandon and retire its …
Energy news in brief
** The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) recently announced $17.9 million in funding for four research and development projects to scale up American manufacturing of flow battery and long-duration storage systems. ** Ford just announced it’s going to dump boatloads of money into Tennessee and Kentucky to create a couple of mega sites for electric vehicle production. In clearer terms, …
Energy news in brief
** PennEast Pipeline said on Monday it would cease development of the natural gas pipeline it proposed to build from Pennsylvania to New Jersey because the project had not yet received all the required permits. ** The Biden administration puts the brakes on oil and gas drilling permit approvals after coming under fire for issuing too many. ** Widening …
Energy news in brief
** President Biden announced Tuesday that the U.S. would double its financial contributions to help developing nations combat and adapt to climate change. ** The Environmental Protection Agency has finalized the first major step taken under President Joe Biden to curb climate change, releasing new regulations to phase down the use of a potent greenhouse gas used in …
Energy news in brief
** Canadian-based PetroTal Corp. announced the completion of its fourth horizontal well in Peru’s Bretana oil field, a well producing 7,600 barrels of oil a day over a ten-day period. ** C F Industries, which uses hydrogen and nitrogen to make fertilizers and other products, said it has halted operations at its U.K. manufacturing complexes due …
Some oppose biggest solar farm in Kansas history
It’s not a wind farm project that is opposed by some Eastern Kansas residents. It’s a $320 million solar farm in the southern part of Johnson County—the largest to be built in the state. NextEra Energy, the Florida-based energy is behind the effort to build the West Gardner Solar farm on 3,500 acres of …
Oklahoma firms get USDA loans for renewable energy projects
Three Oklahoma companies are among those set to receive part of the $464 million the USDA announced it is investing in solar, wind and other renewable energy projects in the Midwest and Great Plains. Central Rural Electric Cooperative headquartered in Stillwater will receive $88.7 million to improve 179 miles of electric lines throughout north-central …