A correction to the story we carried this week regarding the solar auction to be carried out by the Bureau of Land Management in southern Colorado. We characterized the story as indicating the BLM would sell the land but in all reality, it is simply selling the right for commercial solar farm use of …
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Vandals hit Arkansas solar panels leaving $160,000 in damages
Someone had it in for the solar panels used to provide power in the city of Midland, Arkansas. They destroyed more than $160,000 in solar panels in recent weeks. The vandalism was recently discovered and sheriff’s officers believe it occurred since February. Midland is located south of Fort Smith, Arkansas and just east of …
BLM to sell Colorado land for solar farms
Nearly 1,100 acres of government land in Colorado is being auctioned for commercial solar energy production. The land isn’t for sale but the right to the solar production will be sold for lease. The Bureau of Land Management announced the 1,064 acres is in the De Tilla Gulch area of Saguache County, Colorado. The …
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** A newly found memo shows the Biden administration was really attempting to ban gas cooking stoves in homes, even though the White House denied it. The memo from Biden Consumer Product Safety Commissioner Richard Trumka Jr. proves it. The memo, which the Biden admin tried to keep top secret, concludes: “There is sufficient information …
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** Ohio has filed a lawsuit against railroad Norfolk Southern to make sure it pays for the cleanup and environmental damage caused by a fiery train derailment on the Ohio-Pennsylvania border last month. ** The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on Wednesday finalized a rule to require industrial facilities and power plants in 23 states to …
Solar power bill sent to Arkansas Governor
It’s now up to Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders to decide the fate of a bill passed in the state legislature to cut the compensation for solar power users in Arkansas. Approval came in the House of Representatives even though commercial and industrial electric customers opposed Senate Bill 295. Some of the opposition came …
Arkansas senate okays bill to eliminate solar power net metering
The stage is set for a fight in Arkansas where the state senate this week passed a bill to dismantle the state’s net metering policy and give credit to solar customers for power produced at a lower wholesale rate. The Arkansas Times reports the measure, Senate Bill 295, would curtail the state’s booming solar …
More U.S. power capacity to come from wind and solar
All of those wind farms in Oklahoma helped increase the amount of planned new electric-generating capacity from wind, solar and battery storage in the U.S. this year. The U.S. Energy Information Administration reports the three technologies account of 825 of the new, utility-scale generating capacity that developers plan to bring online in the nation. …
Texas governor says solar and wind projects need not apply for state tax breaks
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott is 100% behind a new state program to give tax breaks to businesses but not for wind and solar energy projects. “I support [the program] not providing economic incentives for renewables,” Abbott said during a news conference in Austin. “There’s already federal incentives for renewable projects, and those will continue …
GOP governors push for energy diversification
It would appear Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt’s call for more energy diversification, one he made in his early February State of the State address to the state legislature, isn’t a lone call in the wild. Other Republican governors have made similar calls even as GOP legislators are pushing anti-ESG acts and laws. Bloomberg recently …