Over 950 Edmond Electric commercial customers will be paying higher utility bills in the near future. That’s because ratepayers participating in the utility’s Pure and Simple Wind Rider program will be subject to more than a sixfold increase over the next five years, according to a news report in The Oklahoman. Last week, the Edmond …
Oklahoma’s Incentive Evaluation Commission will hold a special meeting Tuesday to consider its final recommendations to the legislature on how to handle tax credits of several industries. While wind-farm opponents in the legislature wanted massive cuts in the credits for the wind industry, the Commission, in a meeting last week, recommended no changes from those …
As the Oklahoma Incentive Evaluation Commission prepares to meet Tuesday to continue its consideration of tax credits, its most recent recommendations to the governor and the state legislature are surprising to some. Initially when the Commission was formed earlier in the year, there was a suggested belief that some tax credits or incentives might get …
The State-appointed commission tasked with recommending when and where to cut tax credits and for which industries meets Tuesday at the State Capitol. The Incentive Evaluation Commission meeting agenda includes discussion and possible action on eleven incentives for 2016. One is a tax credit for tuition reimbursement for Aerospace Employers, a credit …
Microsoft announced this week it is committing to buy 237 megawatts of alternative energy to supply its Cheyenne, Wyoming data center. At least 178 megawatts are being purchased from the Bloom Wind farm under construction near Dodge City, Kansas. Capital Power will operate Bloom Wind and has contracted all of the output to a subsidiary …
Oklahoma’s wind industry withstood another attack on the credits it’s getting from the state during a Thursday meeting of the Incentive Evaluation Commission, the group that’s studying tax credits and recommending which ones should be shelved or reduced to help the state budget. State Senator Mike Mazzei, who is the outgoing Senate Finance Committee chairman said …
Oklahoma’s Incentive Evaluation Commission will resume consideration this week of recommendations to cut tax credits to the wind industry sooner than planned. The Commission received recommendations from consultant, Public Financial Management which urged an end to wind tax credits by 2018, rather than Jan. 1, 2021 as the state originally intended. The recommendation is part …
A new government report shows Oklahoma is one of eleven states that generated at least 10 percent of their total electricity from wind in 2015. The U.S. Energy Information Administration reports that Oklahoma ranks fourth among the eleven states with 18 percent of its electricity coming from wind power. Iowa is ranked at the top …
Another big wind farm is planned for the Texas Panhandle, one to be located at 11,000 acres of land about 30 miles south of Amarillo. Falvez Energy recently closed financing on the 163-megawatt wind farm planned for Randall, Castro and Deaf Smith counties, according to a report in the Amarillo Globe. The company said the …
Wind power could provide nearly 20 percent of the world’s electricity supply by 2030 due to significant cost reductions and commitments by nations that pledged to curb carbon emissions, according to a report released by the Global Wind Energy Council in Beijing on Tuesday. Drastic cuts in the price of renewable energies have made wind …
