** A California city will make an exception to its natural gas ban for world-famous chef José Andrés, after the landlords for the chef’s planned restaurant warned Andrés may pull out over the regulation. After the owners of the mall where Andrés is set to open the restaurant threatened to sue the city, Palo Alto …
Category: Solar Energy in Oklahoma
Gov. Stitt works on getting federal approval for giant solar plant in Oklahoma
Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt has been in talks with Biden administration officials in recent days about speeding the permitting of a new Enel North America solar plant near Pryor, a project that the governor says will be the largest economic development investment in state history. Under the project, the state has approved $180 million …
NextEra plans to sell oil and gas operations in Texas and Pennsylvania
NextEra Energy Partners LP, the company known in Oklahoma for its wind farm developments, says it’s planning to sell its STX Texas midstream assets in the Eagle Ford Shale and Pennsylvania’s Meade natural gas pipeline. The company wants to streamline finances and become more of a fully renewables-based company according to John Ketchum, NextEra’s …
Biden vetoes GOP effort to restore solar panel tariffs
President Biden delivered a blow to Oklahoma’s congressional delegation and others that sent him a resolution to reinstate tariffs on solar panel imports from Southeast Asia. Oklahoma’s members of the U.S. House and Senate voted in support of the resolution that represented a long-running fight with the White House about punishing China over trade …
Solar developers vow to leave Texas if legislature adopts restrictive rules and regulations
Several Texas solar developers say they’ll consider shifting their operations elsewhere if state lawmakers pass legislation enforcing new permitting restrictions and fines on solar and wind projects. The utility-scale solar and wind market was dealt a blow to the head when a Texas senate group voted 21-9 in favor of SB 624, a state bill which …
Apex Clean Energy to develop energy storage sites in Texas
Apex Clean Energy, the company known in Oklahoma for its wind farm developments over the past several years, now plans to build two battery storage systems in Texas. The projects will add nearly 200 MG of energy to the state’s ERCOT grid by using the Centipede Platform and StackOS battery management system provided by …
Central Kansas officials take steps to protect Cheyenne Bottoms from solar farm encroachment
Right in the middle of Kansas—Great Bend—residents want tougher rules for solar farms. Many residents of Barton County, once an oil hot-spot half a century ago, want protection of their popular Cheyenne Bottoms wildlife area from construction of solar farms. Cheyenne Bottoms is a nearly 60-square mile natural geologic depression that is the …
Oklahoma legislative committee gives early approval of tax package for Enel solar plant
If renewable energy company Enel North America meets the terms of a state House approved taxpayer incentives package, it could get up to $180 million in incentives from Oklahoma over a proposed solar panel factor at the Tulsa Port of Inola. A House joint appropriations committee voted this week to give initial approval to …
Latest edition of Mitchell Talks Energy
Just what are Scott Mitchell and Jerry Bohnen discussing this week on Mitchell Talks Energy? Sometimes, their talk meanders into related fields of discussion as you’ll learn in this edition.
Solar panels are “eye sores” to Colorado residents
Opposition to renewable energy projects sometimes isn’t so much about their dependency on the wind and sun, but their destruction of views. That’s right—some opponents feel the massive wind farms are unsightly. Now it’s the same argument being made by northwest Colorado residents to a proposed solar farm near the town of Meeker. They …