Kansas City-based Evergy, a utility serving 1.6 million customers in Kansas and Missouri announced it is seeking bids for more wind energy to supply its electricity needs. The company issued a Request for Proposal seeking bids to purchase wind resources of up to 1,000 megawatts to be in service by 2026. Projects that achieve …
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Historic changes are coming to the Texas energy industry
A report by the Federal Reserve Bank of Texas suggests the state’s economy will continue to do well in the coming decades even with a possible and likely long-term decline in the state’s oil and gas sector. But changes are definitely coming to the state’s energy industry. The bank stated in its assessment report …
Headlines of other energy stories
** The White House has asked energy companies to help lower fuel prices amid a worldwide rise in energy costs, Reuters reported. Oil and gas companies have spoken with the White House in the preceding days regarding the request, two sources familiar with the matter told Reuters. ** The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) awarded a contract to a …
Missouri county wind turbine regulations near approval
Voters in central Missouri’s Boone County might vote in a few weeks on putting restrictions on wind farm development. County Commissioners plan to unveil their final proposed regulations including the height of wind towers, potential environmental ramifications and visual impacts reported KOMU TV news. In June, the county planning commission recommended restrictions to include: …
SW Kansas wind farm turns 20 years old
It’s been 20 years since NextEra Energy installed a 170-turbine wind farm in southwest Kansas near the small town of Montezuma. NextEra, the same company with numerous wind farms in Oklahoma, gets enough electrical power from the Montezuma operation to power nearly 35,000 homes a year reported the Kansas News Service. Click here for …
Iowa community could lose 900 workers in wind industry
While Iowa is now the second wind-energy state in the nation, it doesn’t guarantee jobs in the industry as one city in the state has learned. Leaders in Newton, Iowa, once home to thousands of jobs for Maytag learned in the past several days that 900 jobs might be lost in two wind energy …
Oklahoma remains strong for wind power
A new report shows Oklahoma continues to be a strong state for wind power, ranking third nationally behind Texas and Iowa for installed generation capacity in 2020 and third nationally for the percentage of electrical power generated by wind. The Department of Energy’s Land-Based Wind Market report showed a record 16,836 megawatts of U.S. wind …
Flexible turbine blades could extend wind power’s reach
Researchers at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory in Colorado say they’re working on ways to making wind turbine blades more bendable so the challenges of transporting them on highways and roads isn’t so difficult. The researchers found that “controlled flexing” might also result in the ability to manufacture longer blades reported the Energy News …
ALLETE Announces Third Partner in Energy Center
ALLETE, Inc, the Minnesota-based energy firm with major wind farm operations in Oklahoma announced this week the $20 million sale of part of its ownership stake in a Wisconsin-based energy center. ALLETE sold part of its share in the planned Nemadji Trail Energy Center to North Dakota-based Basin Electric Power Cooperative. ALLETE will …
Energy news in brief
** Amid consternation over blackouts across New Orleans after Hurricane Ida, Entergy floats the idea of moving its headquarters out of the Louisiana city and sets off ripples of concern. ** The Department of Energy reports in 2020, wind energy was the largest source of U.S. electric-generating capacity additions, accounting for 42% of new capacity. ** Commercial buildings in the United …