The recently announced government plan to increase solar power production across the U.S. gets the strong support of environmental groups in Arkansas. Click here for KNWA story.
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Energy news in brief
**Royal Dutch Shell Plc is gearing up to restart oil pipelines off the U.S. Gulf Coast, potentially moving the region’s top driller one step closer to restoring some production shut by Hurricane Ida. Most of the pipelines will be ready to operate within a week, according to a person familiar with the matter. **OPEC could revise …
Energy news in brief
** Occidental Petroleum Corp on Wednesday said in a securities filing seven of its 10 offshore oil production platforms in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico remain offline since Hurricane Ida. ** Experts say tens of thousands of people may abandon Louisiana after Ida, similar to the mass exodus that took place after Hurricane Katrina. ** A leak of …
Energy news in brief
** Photos show what appears to be a miles-long oil slick near an offshore rig in the Gulf of Mexico after Hurricane Ida, according to aerial survey imagery released Wednesday by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and reviewed by The Associated Press. ** Roughly a million homes and businesses in Louisiana and Mississippi still had no electricity …
Sandia uncovers hidden factors affecting solar farms during severe weather
Sandia National Laboratories researchers combined large sets of real-world solar data and advanced machine learning to study the impacts of severe weather on U.S. solar farms, and sort out what factors affect energy generation. Their results were published earlier this month in the scientific journal Applied Energy. Hurricanes, blizzards, hailstorms and wildfires all pose risks …
Energy Transfer to get more electricity from Texas solar projects
Dallas-based Energy Transfer has announced its commitment to buy 120 MW of energy from a 200 MW solar plant planned for construction in Texas next year. The midstream oil and gas company announced it signed a 15-year Power Purchase Agreement with San Francisco-based SB Energy for 120 megawatts of electricity from its Eiffel Solar project in northeast Texas. …
Texas gets another solar farm
The growing number of solar farms in Texas increased this week with the completion of a project near Lubbock by Signal Energy, a firm based in Chattanooga, Tennessee. Its 418 megawatt Juno Solar project is now producing enough renewable energy to power the equivalent of 40,000 homes announced the company. “Building solar projects of …
Unconstitutional fees result in refunds for Kansas Evergy solar users
Recent action by the Kansas Corporation Commission means Evergy customers with solar panels on their homes will soon get refunds because of a Kansas Supreme Court ruling. The justices ruled Evergy’s actions of requiring solar uses to pay charges to the utility were unconstitutional according to the Kansas Reflector. Click here for Kansas Reflector.
Energy news in brief
** Mexico’s state-owned oil company said Tuesday the possible remains of two missing subcontractors had been found on one of its oil platforms in the Gulf of Mexico following a weekend fire. ** Yara International now expects to sail the first autonomous, fully electric cargo ship in Norway by the end of 2021. The Yara Birkeland …
Energy news in brief
** EPA is preparing new quotas for how much biofuel must be blended into gasoline, as the administration balances competing interests from the oil and agriculture industries, Bloomberg reports. ** Boulder County, Colorado’s sheriff’s department adds a Tesla to its patrol-vehicle fleet. ** Alaska politicians denounce a federal judge’s order this week voiding approved permits for a major …