The board of directors of ALLETE Inc., the Duluth, Minnesota energy firm with wind farms in southern and western Oklahoma picked company President and CEO Bethany M. Owen to be chair of the board. The move was effective Tuesday of this week. Owen has served as ALLETE’s president since 2019 and chief executive officer …
Category: Wind Energy
KCI airport now powered 100% by wind energy
A wind farm in southwest Kansas is now providing 100% of the electricity to power the Kansas City International Airport. The electrical power comes from the Cimarron Bend wind farm in Clark County where Ashland is the largest city. KSHB 41 also reported that in addition to the municipally owned airport, KCMO said …
Texas wind city challenged on issue of old wind turbine blades
For years, Sweetwater, Texas proclaimed itself to be the Wind Energy Capital of North America. Now the city that took pride in the industry is facing a new challenge—what to do with all the old and out dated huge wind turbine blades. Sweetwater is working on a solution of how to dispose of the …
Liberty Utilities adds another wind farm in SE Kansas
Kansas got another wind farm online this past week. This time the wind project is in the southeast corner of the state. Liberty Utilities put the Neosho Ridge Wind Farm online in the past few days as the company entered the final phase in its largest ever renewable energy project reported KSN. Click here …
Enel Green Power builds 11th Oklahoma wind farm
Renewable energy producer Enel Green Power has launched construction on another new wind farm in southcentral Oklahoma—its 11th wind project in the state. The company announced the 140 MW Rockhaven wind project is being built in Garvin and Carter Counties and is adjacent to the Origin wind farm which Enel has operated since 2015. …
Farm Bureau leader fights ’eminent domain’ for Grainbelt Express Transmission Line
The planned Grain Belt Express which is designed to carry electricity from Southwest Kansas wind farms through Missouri and to Illinois is being attacked by the President of the Missouri Farm Bureau. Writing in a Missouri newspaper, Garrett Hawkins said the use of eminent domain for the construction of the transmission line sets a very …
Wind farm operator’s 1Q earnings hurt by Oklahoma winter storm
The severe winter weather that hit Oklahoma in February ended up affecting financial operations of wind-farm operator ALLETE Clean Energy. The Duluth, Minnesota-based company with wind farm operations near Ardmore and Anadarko reported first quarter 2021 earnings of 99 cents per share on net income of $51.8 million. Last year’s results were $1.28 per share …
Wind energy company studying SE Nebraska for possible wind farm
Southeast Nebraska might become home to still another wind farm, thanks to the efforts of NextEra Energy, the same firm that constructed and operates several wind farms in Oklahoma. NextEra’s subsidiary, Big Blue Nebraska Wind LLC is exploring the meteorological possibilities of whether the winds in southeast Nebraska are steady and strong enough to …
Sen. Lankford and others file bill to eliminate wind tax credit
A move to phase out the federal production tax credit for renewables was launched this week by Oklahoma U.S. Sen. James Lankford and three other Republicans in the Senate. Together with North Dakota’s Kevin Cramer and John Hoeven and West Virginia’s Shelley Moore Capito, they introduced the Production Tax Credit (PTC) Elimination Act, a bill …
West Texas wind farm being repowered
The West Texas Panther Creek III wind farm is being repowered under a deal partnered by GE Renewable Energy and RWE Renewables. The project includes replacing a large number of the 133 wind turbine components including longer blades and the upgrading of existing gearboxes according to a report by Energy Global. The erection …