Leaders of Adair County in southwest Iowa have voted to put a cap in the number of wind farms. Radio Iowa reports it is Adair County where the Board of Supervisors voted this week in support of an amendment to its Wind Energy Ordinance. The amendment caps the number of commercial wind turbines or …
(Williams County, North Dakota) Enel Green Power, the wind farm company with operations throughout Oklahoma has started building a 121-turbine wind farm in northwest North Dakota. The Aurora wind farm, capable of generating 299 megawatts of electricity is going up in Williams and Mountrail Counties. Once completed, the wind farm will sell electricity to Basin …
Black Hills Energy expects its recently completed 60-megawatt wind farm near Walsenburg in southern Colorado to start operating by the end of the year. Officials from the utility recently joined Pueblo County and city officials to mark completion of construction of the Busch Ranch II wind project, according to the Denver Post. Black Hills …
ALLETE Clean Energy, the company building a 300-megawatt wind site in southern Oklahoma has another wind farm project in North Dakota that will be online this month. The $200 million wind farm near Glen Ullin, North Dakota will provide power for more than 50,000 customers in Morton and Mercer Counties. …
A bit of irony exists as the oil and gas industry finds itself dependent on wind and solar power to make sure the shale boom continues. It’s in West Texas where there is growing demand for electricity to power the drilling rigs. It wasn’t but a few years ago, at least in Oklahoma, where the …
With $11 billion in wind energy in the past decade, the state of Kansas has topped its Renewable Energy Standard goal by 16.5 percent in the past year. KSNT TV reports the goal was to have 20 percent of an industry’s demand generated by renewable energy and in the past ten years, the state has …
ALLETE, Inc. the Minnesota-based energy company that owns a wind farm operation in southern Oklahoma, reported third quarter 2019 earnings of 60 cents a share on net income of $31.2 million. The results compared to 59 cents a share a year ago on net income of $30.7 million. However, wind farm operations showed a loss …
United States wind operations and maintenance annual spending is expected to increase to more than $7.5 billion by 2030, a 50% increase above 2018 spending, according to a new report by IHS Markit , a world leader in critical information, analytics and solutions. According to the IHS Markit 2019 Wind Power Plant Benchmarking in North America: …
Those attending the Nebraska Wind and Solar Conference and Exhibition this week were told the state has much more potential to increase its production of wind-powered electricity. “There’s a lot of upside potential in our state because we have tremendous wind and solar resources,” John Hansen, president of the Nebraska Farmers Union, told attendees at …
Months after Oklahoma settled issues with wind farm developers to prevent construction too close to military installations, now the military wants five other states to adopt similar rules. But this time, the rules would prevent wind turbines close to nuclear missile arsenals. The Associated Press reported the military wants to prevent conflicts between the wind …
