A county in northeast Kansas is considering a moratorium on all future wind and solar farm. Jack County commissioners scheduled a hearing this week to discuss the possibility according to KSNT. Click here for KSNT
Category: Solar Energy in Oklahoma
Chevron to build New Mexico solar farm
Chevron joined Algonquin Power & Utilities Corp in launching a 133-acre solar farm in southeast New Mexico to provide electrical power to the Permian Basin. Chevron’s Hayhurst Solar Power Facility is in Eddy County, New Mexico, a site on state trust land managed by the New Mexico State Land Office. Work is underway to …
Fight underway against nation’s largest proposed solar farm
One woman’s fight against a $1.5 billion solar farm in Indiana….the largest such solar project in the country. She raised millions to fight the 13,000 acre and she’s not even a farmer. Click here for The Guardian
Most U-S homes with solar panels are in the Northeast and West
A report by the US. Energy Information Administration shows that most of the U.S. homes with solar panels are on the country’s East and West coasts. In 2020, 3.7% of U.S. single-family homes, including mobile homes, generated electricity from small-scale solar systems (solar panels installed on a home or building), according to our 2020 Residential …
Solar farms to be new source of tax revenue?
While the Oklahoma Supreme Court ruled this week against taxing production tax credits used by the state’s wind farms, legislators in nearby Missouri are exploring how to tax solar energy farms, a matter arising from a Missouri Supreme Court ruling. The high court in Missouri ruled in August that a 2013 state law granting …
Energy grant to study solar-wildlife interactions in Arkansas, Oklahoma and Kansas
Among the $14 million in U.S. Department of Energy grants awarded this week to researchers to study how solar projects affect wildlife, is a study that will focus on such projects in Oklahoma, Arkansas and Kansas. The University of Arkansas at Fayetteville received a $1.3 million grant to study large-scale solar facilities and how …
Firm creates solar power for EV chargers
If solar energy can be used to charge electric fences used by farmers, why not the same process for EV chargers but on a larger scale? A company based in Olathe, Kansas has come up with what it calls the “first truly green energy charging” plan reported KCTV news in Kansas City. Click here …
Entergy to create largest solar project in Arkansas
Entergy Arkansas, the utility that gets some of its electricity from Oklahoma wind power is moving ahead with the biggest solar energy project in Arkansas. It’s planning a new 250-megawatt project covering nearly 2,100 acres near Osceola in Mississippi County, a project that will provide power to more than 40,000 homes according to Arkansas …
Iowa county might delay more solar energy projects for a year
The second most-populated county in Iowa is considering a year-long delay of allowing any more large solar energy projects. Cedar Rapids is the county seat where county supervisors are being urged to adopt a 12-month moratorium reported The Gazette. Click here for The Gazette
Proposed largest solar farm in Kansas faces opposition
Plans by NextEra Energy Resources to build a 2,000 acre solar farm in eastern Kansas—the state’s largest—have run into growing opposition by neighbors of the proposed site. The West Gardner Solar Project would generate 320 megawatts, enough to power thousands of homes and businesses. KCUR radio, an NPR affiliate interviewed some of them. Click here for …