They’re still probably celebrating the early Christmas present given Houston-based Plains and Eastern Clean Line by a federal judge in Arkansas. It’s a ruling on a proposed line carrying wind powered electricity from western Oklahoma to Tennessee. At the same time, the Plains and Eastern Clean Line Oklahoma LLC has been purchased by NextEra Energy …
Another wind farm in Oklahoma has gone operational. EDF Renewable Energy announced that it’s 154 megawatt Rock Falls Wind Project in Kay and Grant Counties in northern Oklahoma started commercial operation this week. Kimberly-Clark Corporation signed an agreement earlier in the year with EDF for 120 MW of generation. It is also Kimberly-Clark’s first …
The attorney general in New Mexico and consumer advocates reached agreement this week with Xcel Energy over the firm’s plans to add more wind power for customers in New Mexico and parts of Texas. The proposed agreement by Attorney General Hector Balderas focused on the Sagamore Wind Project in New Mexico’s Roosevelt county. It would …
Google’s made another big move toward getting electrical power from wind farms in Oklahoma and South Dakota. The company announced this week it is buying 536 megawatts of new wind capacity from four U.S. wind farms. One of the farms is the Red Dirt wind farm in Oklahoma. Google signed an agreement with the Grand …
Wind developers in Oklahoma and across the rest of the country might not fully embrace the tax reform plan passed over the weekend by the U.S. Senate. That’s because it would reduce the number of years that developers were allowed to claim the wind production tax credit, according to a report by E and E …
One wind energy company with operations in Oklahoma has learned to forecast the wind—-when it will blow and when it might not. Xcel Energy Inc., based in Minneapolis serves customers in eight Midwestern and Western states. It is considered to be a major supplier of electricity in Colorado but also has operations in Texas. In …
Already supplying electricity to Google in Oklahoma, EDF Renewable Energy has signed an agreement to supply more power from its new Glaciers Edge Wind Project in Iowa. The project is located in northwest Iowa’s Cherokee County and should be online by December 2019. EDF said the additional capacity of 200 megawatts of wind energy will …
The Oklahoma Chapter of the Sierra Club has launched an effort to get people to sign a petition urging the Oklahoma Corporation Commission to sign off on the largest wind energy project in the U.S. In an email message this week, Oklahoma Chapter Director Johnson Bridgwater said the Wind Catcher project proposed in the Panhandle …
Wind power giant, Enel Green Power North America, Inc. has started construction on its first wind farm in the state of Nebraska. Work begins nearly a year after the company completed and connected to the grid the Drift Sand and Chisholm View II wind power plants in northern Oklahoma. Chisholm View II is an expansion …
What happens when wind turbines get old? If they belong to MidAmerican Energy based in Iowa, they are refurbished as part of a $1 billion updating project announced by the company. It plans to update more than 700 older wind turbines across Iowa. The company will start on three wind farms built in 2004 in …
