A roadblock to construction of a more than $1 billion solar farm proposed for southern Wyoming has been removed. County officials in Cheyenne have reached a deal with Enbridge, a Canadian energy firm for a payment plan of the $14.5 million need to rebuild a key road to build the $1.2 billion farm …
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** Atlanta overtakes northern Virginia as a hotspot for data center construction, with 2,160 MW worth of development underway in the Georgia metro area. ** As GOP Congress members push to revoke the Biden administration’s ban on offshore drilling, Florida Republicans say they still don’t want drilling off their coast. ** The Trump administration announces …
Oklahoma House adopts bill protecting landowners from abandoned solar farms
A bill targeting solar farm operations that go out of business and at the same time protecting the landowners not only won support Monday in the Oklahoma House of Representatives. It was unanimous support as the House voted 94-0 in support of House Bill 1373, by Rep. Brad Boles, R-Marlow. His bill, formally called …
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** Ontario Premier Doug Ford said on Monday that he would block energy exports to the United States “with a smile” if U.S. President Donald Trump moved ahead with plans for a 25 percent tariff on Canadian goods. ** In response to the likelihood of the current Trump administration increasing tariffs across the board, the Solar Energy Industries Association …
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** Still on hold: Arkansas has halted its $54.1 million build-out of electric vehicle charging stations after the Trump administration froze federal funding. ** The Greek shipping company Eurobulk has been hit with a $1.1 million fine by a Texas judge after the company pleaded guilty to illegally discharging oily bilge water from one of its vessels. ** …
Attorney General heard complaints of anti-wind and solar farm groups
The anti-wind and solar farm movement in Oklahoma along with growning opposition to electric transmission lines apparently resonated with Oklahoma Attorney General Gentner Drummond. He had been among state leaders that some of the groups formed to combat eminent domain for transmission lines and renewable energy farms had targeted to support their efforts. Drummond …
New solar projects coming to Arkansas while EPA unlocks $200 million in green energy projects in the state
Arkansas saw two major energy developments in the past week. One involved the Trump administration’s freeing of $200 million in green energy funds for the state while the second involved plans to build at least three renewable energy projects in Arkansas. Carbon solutions platform Clearloop of Nashville, Tennessee announced a deal with Microsft to …
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** More than half of the jurors selected for Energy Transfer’s defamation trial against Greenpeace have ties to the fossil fuel industry or view pipeline protests negatively, signaling how difficult it was to seat a jury in oil country. ** Michigan utilities could be fined up to $10 million under a new order for failing …
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** Diamondback Energy Inc. is in talks to form a power joint venture that would solve some of the shale giant’s own needs in the Permian Basin while also selling electricity to artificial intelligence data centers in West Texas. ** Holtec International, the Florida-based company seeking to bring back online the decommissioned Palisades nuclear power plant …
Energy Secretary says government needs to get out of the way of energy growth
Energy Secretary Chris Wright gave a clue this week what he feels about government regulations of commercial nuclear and geothermal production. Get out of the way of private industry! It’s what he told reporters this week during a visit to Albuquerque, New Mexico. “They’re such high bars that we’ve just seen almost nothing happen …