The head of an organization promoting renewable energy says Missouri cooperatives fighting such investments are wrong. James Owen is executive director of Renew Missouri and wrote in the Springfield News-Leader that renewable energy could become Missouri’s new reliable cash crop. Click here for Springfield News-Leader
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** The Senate has bucked Sen. Joe Manchin’s (D-W.Va.) latest effort to get his energy deal with Majority Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) attached to must-pass legislation. The chamber blocked Manchin’s permitting reform amendment from getting onto a defense funding bill known as the National Defense Authorization Act in an 47-47 vote. Sixty votes were needed to advance …
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** U.S. natural gas futures jumped about 7% to a two-week high on Tuesday on forecasts for colder weather and higher heating demand through at least the end of December. ** The American Petroleum Institute and the State Enterprise “Ukrainian Scientific Center for Standardization, Certification and Quality Problems” signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to promote the …
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** The United States has shipped the first part of its power equipment aid to Ukraine, U.S. officials said on Monday, as Washington works to support the country’s energy infrastructure against intensifying attacks from Russia. ** New U.S. solar installations are on track to fall by nearly a quarter this year, with panel imports stalled by …
New style of solar farm to be built in Texas
Texas will be the site of the next solar project of Erthos, Inc., the company that designed solar operations that sit directly on the ground rather than on legs. Erthos signed an agreement with Austin-based Industrial Sun LCC for a new solar farm to be built in Texas but the site was not revealed …
Texas solar and wind power will outpace natural gas in 2023
The government predicts most of the electricity generated in 2023 in Texas will be from from solar and wind power and not natural gas or coal. The U.S. Energy Information Administration made the declaration in its short-term energy outlook report released Tuesday. Click here for The Week
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** California lawmakers on Monday introduced legislation to penalize oil companies for alleged price gouging, setting up a showdown with an industry that has long wielded political influence in the Golden State. ** Congressional Democratic leaders are pushing to include legislation spurring oil and gas drilling that is desired by Democrat West Virginia Sen. Joe Manchin within the annual …
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** One of the government’s first non-binary officials has been charged with stealing a woman’s designer suitcase from the baggage claim at the Minneapolis-St. Paul Airport in September, the New York Post reported. Sam Brinton, the deputy assistant secretary for spent fuel and waste disposition at the Department of Energy’s Office of Nuclear Energy, initially denied taking the Vera …
School districts to suffer from Supreme Court tax credit ruling
The Oklahoma Supreme Court ruling against the use of federal production tax credits used on construction of wind and solar farms, a story first reported in October by OK Energy Today, will apparently have a big impact on school districts across the state. NonDoc reported it will mean a reduction in valuation in school …
PSO wants even more from its customers as shown in latest rate request to regulators
Public Service Company of Oklahoma filed another rate hike request with the Oklahoma Corporation Commission and if approved, its customers would pay another $14 a month. In an announcement on Tuesday, PSO defended the request, citing greater energy security, reliability, long-term affordability, resilience, safety and economic growth. The proposal will provide funding to harden …
