Prompted by a demand to meet growing energy demands, the Montana-Dakota Utilities Company is spending $85 million to get more electricity from wind power in North Dakota. Montana-Dakota is buying the 48-megawatt phase two of ALLETE Clean Energy’s thunder Spirit wind farm near Hettinger, North Dakota. “We are in need of additional energy to meet …
Oklahoma isn’t the only place where some are not happy with the growth of the state’s wind industry. Legislators want to raise taxes on wind farms. The city of Hinton is in a federal lawsuit to keep a wind farm from being built within 2 miles of the city limits. And the state’s oil and …
Wind giant Xcel Energy, a firm with a few hundred miles of transmission lines in Oklahoma has reached an agreement to construct another large wind farm near the New Mexico and Texas border. The company, based in Minneapolis, Minnesota will build the $1.6 billion project near Portales, New Mexico and in Hale County in the …
The NextEra Energy Resources wind company claims in federal court documents it has discovered Hinton did not properly follow state law in creating a 2015 ordinance to control wind farms 2 miles outside the city limits, an ordinance that led to a lawsuit challenging it. NextEra’s claims were revealed in the lawsuit filed in Oklahoma …
The recent recommendation by an Administrative Law Judge at the Oklahoma Corporation Commission against pre-approval of PSO’s massive Panhandle wind farm indicates the utility could present serious challenges in going before the full commission. In other words, PSO could be going against the wind. As OK Energy Today reported earlier, Judge Mary Candler determined Public …
Okay, okay, maybe the company is a little out of Oklahoma’s reach. But anytime a whiskey manufacturer decides to become part of the renewable energy industry, we ought to be interested, right? Anyone say whiskey? How about the company that makes Jack Daniel’s Tennessee Whiskey, Jack Daniels and Cola, Gentleman Jack, Old Forester, Canadian Mist …
ATT, the giant telecommunications company is taking advantage of the wind-farm rankings in Oklahoma and Texas and plans to buy 520 Megawatts of power from two farms. Both farms are being constructed by NextEra Energy Resources. One of the farms is Minco V wind project is near Anadarko in Caddo County. ATT will purchase 220 …
One of the biggest wind farm operators in the State of Oklahoma, Enel Green Power North America has donated $65,000 to help first responders in three counties. The funding actually came from Enel Green’s Origin Wind Farm at Hennepin. The emergency response agencies in Murray, Carter and Garvin counties in south central Oklahoma received the …
While the newly-formed civic and business group Step Up Oklahoma is at odds with the wind industry, one man who is not is a southern Oklahoma rancher. Chuck Coffey and his wife Ruth own the Double CC Cattle Co. in the Arbuckle mountains of Murray County. Their land became a wind farm in 2014 and …
If anyone thought relations between the wind industry and the civic group called Step Up Oklahoma were smooth, forget it! The group of civic and business leaders who believe the State government can tax its way out of the budget crisis has accused the Wind Coalition and its director Jeff Clark of working to run …
