With the start of the 2018 session of the Oklahoma legislature,the state’s wind industry is left wondering how legislators might treat them and their taxes as the state wrestles with a budget crisis. Mark Yates, Director of the Wind Coalition in Oklahoma admits he has some concerns but also told OK Energy Today he’s confident …
Iowa is no longer the No. 2 wind power state in the U.S. The honor now belongs to Oklahoma, according to the American Wind Energy Association. The Association released figures this week showing Oklahoma had 7,495 megawatts of installed wind power capacity at the end of 2017 and trails only Texas where the capacity totals …
Oklahoma’s wind industry is stepping up to the plate in the growing debate of raising taxes to fix the state’s government budget crisis. It has announced support of a plan to increase tax revenues from wind-generated electricity to $50 million. “As in year’s past, the Oklahoma wind industry againn recognizes the State’s recurring revenue problem …
Reckless. It’s what the head of the Wind Coalition says about an Oklahoma legislator’s belief that the wind industry was behind the tracking device found on the legislator’s pickup truck last month. Jeffrey Clark, President of the Coalition denied any suggestion by Rep. Mark McBride, a Republican from Moore. “I feel confident that this industry …
As the governor of Iowa from 2007 to 2011, Chet Culver was credited with development of his state’s renewable energy efforts. Now he’s going to work doing lobbying work with a Washington, D-C based energy company. Culver has joined Green Generation Solutions LLC as a senior advisor to “enhance and augment the firm’s work in …
Oklahoma is getting yet another big wind farm. Quinbrook Infrastructure Partners based in New York announced this week plans for nearly quarter of a billion dollar Persimmon Project in northwest Oklahoma Capable of producing an estimated 900,000 megawatt hours of renewable power every year, the nearly $268 million project will go up in Woodward, Dewey …
The Wind Coalition is joining Step Up Oklahoma in working to fix Oklahoma’s budget crisis. But it’s also hesitant in supporting new taxes on the wind industry as a way of solving the problem. Jeffrey Clark, executive director of the Coalition was asked this week by the newly-formed group of business and civic leaders who …
In the midst of spending billions on construction of a 700-mile transmission line from the Panhandles of Oklahoma and Texas to Tennessee, a Houston company has been told one of the biggest customers it was planning on won’t be part of the deal. The Tennessee Valley Authority recently decided not to buy wind-powered electricity from …
With a 100 MW wind farm already under development in western New Mexico, Tucson Electric Power has plans of yet another large wind powered project. It’s issued a request for proposals for the design and construction of new resources to power nearly 31,000 homes a year. The company will seek bids for wind energy from …
The Oklahoma Corporation Commission starts hearing public comments Thursday in the proposed $4.5 billion wind farm for Public Service Company. Commissioners will take public statements beginning at 1:30 p.m. on the Wind Catch Clean Energy Project. The commission will also hold a full hearing on Jan. 8 on the project that’s an effort of PSO …
