With six different wind farm projects underway across the state, Oklahoma remains a strong number four when it comes to states with installed wind power projects. But Oklahoma is expected to overtake California in the coming year. The projects underway, once finished will add more than 1,100 megawatts to the production of wind power in …
Houston, Texas based Sempra U.S. Gas and Power has expanded its holdings with the purchase of the Apple Blossom wind project in Michigan. No sale price was announced but the purchase of the 100-MW wind farm was made from Geronimo Energy LLC. It’s the second Geronimo sale to Sempra. Construction on the wind farm …
With a $250 million price tag and a dozen years to complete, Xcel Energy’s Border Winds Farm in North Dakota was recently dedicated. Located north of Rolla, the farm has 75 turbines spread over 30 square miles and has the capacity to produce 150 megawatts of electricity. That’s enough to power more than 78,000 homes. …
The feds are investigating a wind farm operation near Pratt, Kansas where two workplace incidents have occurred in recent weeks including one where a worker fell 120 feet from a turbine and survived. The Occupational Safety and Health Administration has started a probe at the Ninnescah Wind Farm in south central Kansas’ Pratt county. The …
Approved in North Dakota, a quarter-of-a-billion-dollar wind farm. The North Dakota Public Service Commission voted this week unanimously in support of the $250 million wind farm and an electric transmission line in the southwest part of the state. The decision came after the commission made history in March when it heard 15 hours of testimony …
California-based Pattern Energy Group Inc., a firm with 17 wind farm operations around the world including two in Texas and one in Kansas is spending $269 million to buy a majority interest in a 324-megawatt wind farm in New Mexico. Pattern purchased an 84 percent initial cash flow for Broadview Wind located 30 miles north …
A General Electric employee sustained serious injuries while working on a wind turbine in south-central Kansas during a Sunday morning accident, according to a news report published in the Tulsa World. The employee was repairing a wind generator blade near Pratt, Kansas when he fell 120 feet, landing on his back in muddy terrain. He …
The wind turbine blades on wind farms in Oklahoma are 116-feet in length but the ones to be used in the nation’s first offshore wind farm off the coast of Rhode Island will dwarf them. They will be more than twice the size of the typical Oklahoma wind farm turbine blade…..240 feet long. The first …
A sign of the times in Gillette, Wyoming. A U-Haul dealer has been sold out since earlier this month. It’s also an affirmation that the state’s coal industry is slowly dying and replaced by the wind industry. As the New York Times recently reported, the last coal mine in southwest Wyoming closed nearly ten …
The wind industry was under attack again as it was blasted by Oklahoma Secretary of Finance Preston Doerflinger due to last month’s 13 percent decline in General Revenue Fund collections as a result of tax rebate and incentive payments to participating businesses, according to an Associated Press report issued on Tuesday. Doerflinger indicated that $3.3 …
