** Washington, D.C. spent $200 million on a two-mile light rail route in downtown DC and now they’re tearing it up. After less than a decade of operation, the D.C. Streetcar is set to be phased out and replaced by an electric bus that Mayor Muriel E. Bowser (D) called a “next generation streetcar” when …
Category: Solar Energy in Oklahoma
Texas legislative efforts fail to curtail wind and solar development
The efforts of some legislators in Texas to rein in the state’s wind and solar industry are dead after several of their bills missed a deadline in the state House before Monday’s end of the legislative session. One of the bills would have put strict limits on where wind and solar farms could be …
Future of proposed solar farm to be decided soon by Wagoner County Commissioners
Wagoner County residents will soon learn whether their county commissioners will support a proposed controversial solar farm near the town of Porter. The Nextera Energy Resources project, named “Persica” would cover nearly 1,500 acres in farmland and some residents are fighting it. The June 16 vote by county commissioners will be on a permit …
Bill to limit eminent domain by wind developers in Oklahoma sent to Governor
Oklahomans fighting the expansion of wind farms through the use of the power of eminent domain are close to getting their wish for a strong anti-eminent domain law. House Bill 2752, if signed into law by Gov. Kevin Stitt or he allows it to become law without his signature, makes it clear. “The power …
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** Unless new evidence emerges about how the Eaton Fire in Los Angeles started earlier this year, Southern California Edison and parent company Edison International Inc. are likely to incur “material losses,” Edison President and CEO Pedro Pizarro said earlier this week. Pizarro said company officials and other investigators have made progress of late on …
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** A research team based at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory says that solar could have the lowest levelized cost of energy (LCOE) of all energy sources in South Korea by the early to mid-2030s. ** In a groundbreaking move to bolster domestic critical mineral production, the U.S. Department of the Interior has greenlit the Velvet-Wood uranium …
What will come out of Texas legislative efforts to restrict renewable energy?
In the final weeks of the Texas legislature’s session, the fight remains underway against renewable energy including expansion of wind farms and solar farms. Others in the legislature have made attempts to protect the state’s historic legend as an oil and gas state. As The Hill reported, Texas has turned into what it described …
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** Utah-based EnergySolutions intends to apply for an early site permit from federal regulators to install new nuclear generation at the retired Kewaunee Power Station in Kewaunee County, Wisconsin, the company said in a statement last week. ** Donald Trump’s administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency threw a tantrum Wednesday when asked to explain how exactly his …
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** A group of 10 environmental advocacy organizations files a brief in support of a lawsuit by 17 states and Washington, D.C. challenging Trump’s executive order banning new wind projects, with one attorney calling the prohibition “unexplained, inconsistent, and incoherent.” ** The American Petroleum Institute welcomed the U.S. National Marine Fisheries Service’s release of a new …
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** A joint venture project developing the first marine fuel facility for liquefied natural gas in the U.S. Gulf Coast has secured final permits and construction is expected to begin later this year, executives involved said on Monday. ** The possible lifting of U.S. sanctions on Iran’s oil exports could deal a fatal blow to …