Northwest Iowa is the site of yet another wind farm project. One or two wind farms are built every year in that sector of the state turning Iowa into one of the top wind-powered states in the country, only behind Texas. Invenergy LLC received permission last year to build the first wind farm in …
A record was set last week at the Southwest Power Pool and it didn’t have anything to do with a power crisis, a storm or rolling blackouts like those experienced by Oklahomans during the February winter storm. On Sunday, March 14, the Power Pool set a renewable penetration record of 81.39%, breaking the previous …
Enel Green Power, already the largest wind farm operator in Oklahoma has begun construction on its latest wind project not far from the Oklahoma state line in Texas. The 79-wind turbines that will make up the Azure Sky wind and storage farm will be located in Throckmorton County located southwest of Wichita Falls. It …
Preventing wind turbines from freezing in frigid weather like the winter storm that hit Oklahoma, Texas and Kansas last month isn’t as easy as it sounds. It’s not a simple solution of putting electrical heaters on the blades. One Iowa State University scientist who has been studying ways to prevent the icing on wind …
The government reported Wednesday that that 2019 and again in 2020, the U.S. installed more wind power capacity than any other generating technology and wind farm construction in Oklahoma added to the total. Oklahoma remained third in net electricity generation from wind and other sources in 2020 according to the Energy Information Administration. The …
A young environmentalist is telling Oklahomans they need more solar panels on their homes to avoid the disastrous power outages like the state suffered last week and smiley faces on our utility bills to urge us to change our behavior about climate change. Writing a “Point of View” in the Wednesday Oklahoman, Graham …
While Texas is trying to figure out what went disastrously wrong in last month’s winter storm, leaving millions in the dark, another wind farm is going up near Houston. EDF Renewables North America, a firm with numerous wind farm operations in Oklahoma announced a power purchase agreement for the second phase of its Space …
Missouri legislators prepare to take up a bill that would ban utility companies from taking land through the use of eminent domain. The bill is aimed at the Grain Belt Express power project which is designed to carry wind-powered electricity from south west Kansas to the state of Illinois. The transmission line must go …
The Wisconsin-based utility WEC Energy Group acquired a 90% stake in the Jayhawk Wind Farm under construction and expected to be online by the end of 2021 in eastern Kansas. WEC purchased the controlling share in a $302 million agreement while the remaining 10% of the wind farm in Bourbon and Crawford counties will …
Oklahoma regulators delayed a decision Monday whether to increase the state’s long-term allowable natural gas production proration rate but will meet Tuesday to consider extending the emergency rate of 100% approved during the winter storm. Oklahoma Corporation Commissioners listened to testimony by a Commission specialist who had recommended increasing the national gas production rate …
