Years after Oklahoma’s oil and gas industry leaders complained of too many government subsidies for the state’s renewable energy projects, a new nationwide report shows those subsidies more than doubled between 2016 and 2022. They also formed nearly half of all the federal energy-related support, jumping to $15.6 billion in fiscal year 2022 from …
Category: Solar Energy in Oklahoma
Xcel Energy to invest $770 million in New Mexico and Texas
Xcel Energy plans to invest nearly $770 million in power-generating operations in Texas and New Mexico and at the same time, extend the life of two older natural gas-fueled units. The company said thee upgrades and additions to its generating fleet in the two states will return $116 million in added tax revenue to …
Solar manufacturing firm to open plant in Colorado Springs
Colorado Springs is getting a new solar cell manufacturing plant and the 350 jobs that will come with it. Switzerland-owned Meyer Burger plans to begin production in the second half of 2024. Click here for KRDO News
Construction to start soon on Missouri’s largest solar farm
Construction is expected to begin in several weeks on what will be the largest solar farm in the state of Missouri. AES will build the 1,100-acre solar farm near Troy Mills and the Kirksville Regional Airport in northern Missouri. Some construction work will begin by mid-August, with it fully underway by late September to early …
New Mexico rancher loses legal fight over his own land
A New Mexico rancher who sued to stop a solar energy company from crossing his private land to service solar farms on other land, lost his fight as the state Supreme Court ruled against him. The justices, in a unanimous opinion, ended the fight brought by the McFarland Land & Cattle Company near Tucumcari …
Amazon announces more renewable energy sources
Amazon is spreading its global renewable energy portfolio and recently reached 30 solar and wind projects in the southeastern US including two more solar farms in Arkansas. With five new solar and wind projects, Amazon expects to generate more than 7,500GWh once fully operational. It was last fall when two new solar energy projects …
Solar farm near historic bird sanctuary in Kansas has opponents
Plans by a Spanish company to build a large solar farm around the historic Cheyenne Bottoms in central Kansas have run into some opposition. Cheyenne Bottoms is described as the largest marsh in the interior of the U.S. as well as the most important shorebird migration point in the western hemisphere. It’s estimated 45% …
Hail destruction and green energy going haywire
The people behind the website, Committee to Unleash Prosperity, are admittedly critical of the Biden administration’s love affair with renewable energy, the subject of climate change and pouring countless billions of dollars into them. Committee founder, Stephen Moore had a critical take on the recent story we reported concerning baseball sized hail and what …
Nebraska solar farm destroyed by baseball-sized hail
Leave it to mother nature to show one weakness of solar farms….hail. The size of baseballs. It fell recently and destroyed a solar farm in Scottsbluff, Nebraska. It shattered nearly every one of the panels on the 5.2 megawatt solar project according to the Cowboy State Daily. Don Day, Cowboy State Daily meteorologist, said …
Wind and solar power beat coal for electricity production
All of those wind farms in Oklahoma helped generate more electricity than coal for the first time ever in the U.S. according to new federal information. E&E News recently reported coal lost out to wind and solar power. Together, the two renewable energy sources produced a combined 252 terawatt-hours in the first five months …