NextEra Energy Partners LP, the company known in Oklahoma for its wind farm developments, says it’s planning to sell its STX Texas midstream assets in the Eagle Ford Shale and Pennsylvania’s Meade natural gas pipeline. The company wants to streamline finances and become more of a fully renewables-based company according to John Ketchum, NextEra’s …
President Biden delivered a blow to Oklahoma’s congressional delegation and others that sent him a resolution to reinstate tariffs on solar panel imports from Southeast Asia. Oklahoma’s members of the U.S. House and Senate voted in support of the resolution that represented a long-running fight with the White House about punishing China over trade …
Several Texas solar developers say they’ll consider shifting their operations elsewhere if state lawmakers pass legislation enforcing new permitting restrictions and fines on solar and wind projects. The utility-scale solar and wind market was dealt a blow to the head when a Texas senate group voted 21-9 in favor of SB 624, a state bill which …
Apex Clean Energy, the company known in Oklahoma for its wind farm developments over the past several years, now plans to build two battery storage systems in Texas. The projects will add nearly 200 MG of energy to the state’s ERCOT grid by using the Centipede Platform and StackOS battery management system provided by …
Right in the middle of Kansas—Great Bend—residents want tougher rules for solar farms. Many residents of Barton County, once an oil hot-spot half a century ago, want protection of their popular Cheyenne Bottoms wildlife area from construction of solar farms. Cheyenne Bottoms is a nearly 60-square mile natural geologic depression that is the …
If renewable energy company Enel North America meets the terms of a state House approved taxpayer incentives package, it could get up to $180 million in incentives from Oklahoma over a proposed solar panel factor at the Tulsa Port of Inola. A House joint appropriations committee voted this week to give initial approval to …
Just what are Scott Mitchell and Jerry Bohnen discussing this week on Mitchell Talks Energy? Sometimes, their talk meanders into related fields of discussion as you’ll learn in this edition.
Opposition to renewable energy projects sometimes isn’t so much about their dependency on the wind and sun, but their destruction of views. That’s right—some opponents feel the massive wind farms are unsightly. Now it’s the same argument being made by northwest Colorado residents to a proposed solar farm near the town of Meeker. They …
With a 2-0 vote, Oklahoma Corporation Commissioners on Thursday signed off on the $2.46 billion renewable energy project for Public Service Company of Oklahoma. The project includes PSO’s acquisition of three solar farms and three wind farms located in southern Kansas and the Texas Panhandle. Commissioner Bob Anthony was absent from the meeting where …
** Firms that haul freight across the San Diego-Tijuana border say they are not prepared for California’s plan to phase out diesel trucks because Mexico lacks zero-emission vehicles and charging infrastructure. ** Under pressure from environmentalists, New York lawmakers on Tuesday made their state the first in the nation to ban the use of natural gas …
