More than a week after a team of 95 OG&E linemen and support personnel deployed to Florida, crews have been working around the clock to restore power as quickly and safely as possible to areas affected by Hurricane Ian. Since arriving, OG&E crews have been assisting Florida Power & Light – the largest power …
For a second consecutive day on Tuesday, crude oil prices recorded significant gains as did most Oklahoma energy stocks. The gain in crude came a day before an anticipated large cut in crude oil output from the OPEC+ producer group. West Texas Intermediate crude for November delivery went up $2.89 or nearly 3.5% …
Support piled up quickly for Oklahoma Congressman Frank Lucas and his “Protect Farmers from the SEC Act” which he filed last week—a measure designed to prevent the Biden Administration from putting unnecessary strain on family farmers by imposing burdensome environmental mandates. Lucas’s office announced this week the measure had the support of the American Farm Bureau …
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 …
By Scott Carpenter of the Insurance Journal and Mike Ray of the Southwest Ledger Bonds sold to help U.S. utilities recoup losses from natural disasters are seeing an unprecedented boom, with the latest burst of issuance generated by the deadly February 2021 storm that paralyzed Texas and Oklahoma as it struck a large swath …
Oklahoma County became the latest county to issue a burn ban as Oklahoma’s drought widens further across the state. Click here for Fox 25 News
The annual Oklahoma City Oilfield Prayer Breakfast will be held next week featuring Kimray CEO Thomas Hill. The speaker is the Chief Executive Officer at Kimray and also the grandson of Kimray founder Garman Kimmell. Hill has worked at the company in virtually every department. He is also the author of the book, …
Grid modernization plans by the Public Service Company of New Mexico total $344 million and will mean customers will pay an additional $1.20 in electricity bills over the next six years. The utility filed its grid modernization plan on Monday with the New Mexico Public Regulation Commission reported the New Mexico Political Report. PNM is a …
Alliance Coal, the major coal-mining company headquartered in Tulsa, announced it intends to open a new underground mine in Kentucky. The $35 million project is to be launched in the spring of next year and be completed and open for operations by the end of 2024 reported The Gleaner, a newspaper in Henderson, Kentucky. …
The Southwest Power Pool, of which Oklahoma is a member, welcomed its first international member this week. The group, based in Arkansas announced the membership of Saskatchewan Power Corporation effective Oct. 1. “Greater integration with the SPP will help to ensure reliable, clean energy is available to Saskatchewan to support our own generating facilities,” …
