Tuesday will be a day for wind and solar energy advocates to make their case with Oklahoma legislators as the Oklahoma Power Alliance holds its Clean Energy Day. It’s a Lobby Day as the Alliance called it, where members and those supporters of wind and solar power can tell their story to legislators. The …
Wichita State University has partnered with a California company to develop commercial technology to protect the nation’s thousands of wind turbines from damaging lightning strikes. Remember lightning rods? They were put atop farm homes and barns but WSU’s agreement with Lightning Diversion Systems will focus on how to transfer electrical strikes from a tower …
Minneapolis-based Xcel Energy has poured the first 66 foundations for what will be a 240-turbine wind farm southeast of Portales, New Mexico with a capacity of 522 megawatts. Xcel is the primary electricity provider in six Eastern New Mexico counties that include the cities of Roswell, Clovis, Hobbs and Carlsbad. The Sagamore wind farm …
After listening to opponents of a proposed wind farm in northeast Nebraska, one county is considering restrictions on the wind project including half-mile setbacks. It’s in Burt County where planning commissioners recently heard opposition to the possible construction of 86 turbines by Con Edison. Some of the turbines would be as tall as 650 …
When a County Planning and Zoning Commission in St. Joseph, Missouri recently voted in support of a proposed total commercial ban on wind energy, the crowd in attendance stood and applauded. Now Buchanan County Commissioners will consider the proposal and Presiding Commissioner Lee Sawyer said that the commissioners have three options: to pass the …
A massive wind farm project in Oklahoma could be critical to American Electric Power’s expectations of 5% to 7% earnings growth through 2024. The North Central Wind project, a proposed operation of three wind farms capable of producing 1,485 MW of electrical power for Public Service Company of Oklahoma is still in regulatory limbo. …
Apex Clean Energy, a company with 8 wind farms in Oklahoma is setting its sights for a new wind farm to be built in central Iowa. Might be later this year or in early 2021 when Apex hopes to being construction on the Great Pathfinder Wind Project in Iowa’s Boone County. “A wind farm will …
Public Service Company of Oklahoma isn’t the only big utility to reach agreement and become part-owner of some Invenergy wind farms. WEC Energy Group based in Milwaukee, Wisconsin has announced it will increase its ownership interest from 80% to 90% in three Midwest wind farms run by Invenergy. But the total investment is only $118 …
The issue of old wind turbine blades and how to dispose of them is becoming a growing challenge for the wind industry, as well as states. As we’ve reported recently, the state of Wyoming is considering a ban of disposing the blades in landfills. E & E news reports one company in Iowa has …
Take a look at the above picture. It’s what the wind farm locations look like in Oklahoma and Texas according to the newest wind turbine database released by a number of federal agencies. The United States Wind Turbine Database (USWTDB) provides the locations of land-based and offshore wind turbines in the United States, corresponding wind …
