The head of the Wind Coalition responds to criticism from oil and gas leaders, saying it’s time to end the fight against the wind industry’s tax credits.
“Fighting one another and saying things about one another that are not true is very unproductive,…
While some wildlife biologists express concern about the fate of bates in northwest Oklahoma’s Selman Cave because of the cave’s proximity to wind farms, a new study suggests some species might be better able to absorb losses than others killed by wind…
The wind battle has been renewed in Oklahoma, thanks to a Tulsa World editorial by State Auditor and Inspector Gary Jones and an anti-wind group of oil and gas industry leaders who call themselves the Windfall Coalition.
Anti-wind billboards have popp…
What is being called the biggest wind farm project in the nation in Wyoming has passed another regulatory step as the federal government’s environmental analysis tentatively cleared the way for construction.
The Power Company of Wyoming, a subsidiary …
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission says a regional grid operator in North Dakota was legally right to remove a wind farm developed by an EDF Renewable Energy subsidiary from the power grid.
FERC stood behind the decision that Midcontinent Indepe…
The federal government says Iowa became the first state in 2015 to provide more than 30 percent of its electricity generation from wind. The U.S. Energy Information Administration said Iowa’s wind farms generated more than 31 percent of all generation …
The construction of a $190 million transmission line to connect wind farms in northwest Oklahoma is being moved up by Oklahoma Gas and Electric. Instead of waiting another three years, the utility plans to begin construction early in 2017 on the 126-mi…
Invenergy, the Chicago-based wind energy company with operations throughout Oklahoma announced this week the signing of a 120 MW wind power purchase agreement to provide EM with renewable energy largely from its Gunsight Wind Energy Center located in T…
The battle lines are drawn on one energy bill before the Oklahoma legislature—one that proposes the elimination of tax credits for the wind industry.
Rep. Lee Denney and Sen. Jason Smalley, both Republicans, introduced HB 2818 and it is pending befo…
“This is keeping everyone honest.” Sen. James Lankford.
Whether Sen. James Lankford’s amendment to finally phase out federal government tax subsidies to the Wind Industry is successfully passed, we’ll have to wait and see what the U.S. Senate does….
