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 …
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 …
