Oklahoma’s wind industry withstood another attack on the credits it’s getting from the state during a Thursday meeting of the Incentive Evaluation Commission, the group that’s studying tax credits and recommending which ones should be shelved or reduced to help the state budget. State Senator Mike Mazzei, who is the outgoing Senate Finance Committee chairman said …
Oklahoma’s Incentive Evaluation Commission will resume consideration this week of recommendations to cut tax credits to the wind industry sooner than planned. The Commission received recommendations from consultant, Public Financial Management which urged an end to wind tax credits by 2018, rather than Jan. 1, 2021 as the state originally intended. The recommendation is part …
A new government report shows Oklahoma is one of eleven states that generated at least 10 percent of their total electricity from wind in 2015. The U.S. Energy Information Administration reports that Oklahoma ranks fourth among the eleven states with 18 percent of its electricity coming from wind power. Iowa is ranked at the top …
Another big wind farm is planned for the Texas Panhandle, one to be located at 11,000 acres of land about 30 miles south of Amarillo. Falvez Energy recently closed financing on the 163-megawatt wind farm planned for Randall, Castro and Deaf Smith counties, according to a report in the Amarillo Globe. The company said the …
Wind power could provide nearly 20 percent of the world’s electricity supply by 2030 due to significant cost reductions and commitments by nations that pledged to curb carbon emissions, according to a report released by the Global Wind Energy Council in Beijing on Tuesday. Drastic cuts in the price of renewable energies have made wind …
An anti-wind group based in Claremore has resumed its public fight with the wind industry, sending out mailers claiming Oklahoma is at risk to blow $5.2 billion on corporate handouts to the Wind Industry. WindWaste.com, led by the Oklahoma Property Rights Association with an address of P.O. Box 986 in Claremore urged voters, “Let’s stop writing …
Work has resumed on a stalled $500 million wind farm in central New Mexico. The 56,000-acre project will eventually have ore than 140 wind turbines with the capability of providing electricity to more than 200,000 homes. Billed as one of New Mexico’s largest wind farms, work on the farm by Avangrid Renewables actually began in …
Those opponents of the Apex Clean Energy wind farm near Kingfisher certainly had a different reaction from supporters after an Oklahoma City federal judge ruled against a lawsuit that wanted the operation shutdown. “We received the Court’s ruling and are pleased with the judgment being entered in favor of Kingfisher Wind,” said the company following …
U.S. District Judge Timothy D. DeGiusti failed to issue a permanent injunction and dismissed a nuisance case on Thursday against an 11,000-acre wind farm located in Canadian and Kingfisher counties, according to The Oklahoman. The 149-turbine wind farm is owned by First Reserve Corp. and operated by Apex Clean Energy Inc. The lawsuit was filed …
General Electric, the company that just dedicated its new oil and gas research center in Oklahoma City just agreed this week to spend $1.65 billion on wind energy. The company announced it will buy one of its suppliers of wind turbine blades from British private equity shop Doughty Hanson and Company. It’s a move that …
