Kansas regulators voted Thursday to turn down a plan by Evergy to charge a monthly grid access fee to solar users, handing something of a temporary win for them. The Kansas Corporation Commission decided to reject the company’s solutions, reported the Hutchinson News. Evergy had wanted to charge solar users a grid access fee …
A study by a coalition of renewable energy groups claims grid-enhancing technologies in Oklahoma and Kansas could help the two states integrate more than 5,200 megawatts of new renewable generation by 2025. The study entitled “Unlocking the Queue” and done by the Working for Advanced Transmission Technologies Coalition focused on Oklahoma and Kansas and …
** New Mexico officials promote an oil and gas company’s 8 MW solar array in the Permian Basin as the type of carbon-reducing initiative companies could pursue under a statewide “clean-fuel standard.” ** German automaker Porsche is working on a synthetic fuel technology that the company says has the potential to make combustion engines just as clean …
** Saudi Arabia intends to raise its oil output in April after committing to unilaterally cut 1 million barrels per day of crude production in February and March in an effort to boost global prices, according to advisers to the kingdom, though they said the plans could be reversed if circumstances change reported Morning Consult. …
In Missouri, the legislature is considering a bill to allow utility companies to charge more to buy back excess electrical power from solar panel users. A House Utilities Committee held a hearing this week on legislation that would allow utilities and electricity providers to raise costs for customers who use solar panels. It would …
A lot of finger-pointing is going on in Texas where millions lost power in the winter storms that bashed the state, resulting in frozen wind turbines and natural gas operations. Some want to put the blame on the frozen wind turbines which produced a large percentage of electricity in Texas. Others argue, “no, no…it’s …
It appears that were it not for stockpiles of coal, the rolling blackout issue in Oklahoma this week would be worse. At least that’s the claim from Gov. Kevin Stitt in a Tuesday morning interview on KWTV News 9. “Thank goodness we had stockpiles of coal at the generation plants because right now, 46% …
An OGE customer in Arkansas has just finished the first part of a project to get its electricity from the power of the sun rather than the Oklahoma-based utility. City leaders in Alma held a “Flip the Switch” event on Friday for a new solar array to power the city’s wastewater treatment facility and …
The French oil and gas group Total increased its U.S. solar power production by adding another 2.2GW with the purchase of four large scale solar projects near Houston, Texas. The company did not disclose how much it paid for the solar farms from SunChase Power, but said it will turn green its …
Hot Springs, Arkansas revealed plans to build the state’s largest municipal solar plant. The plant will consist of 31,000 solar panels to be installed on city-owned property, according to Fox 16 TV news. Upon completion, the solar project will power all of the city buildings and functions in Hot Springs. The city manager said …
