Oklahoma Energy Secretary Jeff Starling joined Republican Congressman Josh Brecheen in a recent Washington Examiner opinion piece citing their opposition to any more green energy subsidies. They might be getting their wish after the Senate voted Saturday night on proposed changes to end the subsidies. Entitled “Senate should stop funding failure, repeal green …
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** Federal regulators have issued a handful of gas-related orders that clear the path for new pipeline and energy infrastructure in the Midwest and along the Gulf Coast. The decisions from the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission come as the agency has taken steps to remove barriers to building gas pipelines, including granting a one-year waiver to a FERC rule …
Texas has law controlling power supplies for data centers
While Oklahoma adopted a “behind the meter” approach to deal with the rapid growth of industrial projects such as data centers, Texas took a different approach. Gov. Greg Abbott recently signed a law in which state regulators will develop what are called demand management programs, a move to cut data center power …
Meta’s need for more electricity results in big contract with solar farms in Texas
After signing an agreement earlier this year to get electrical power from the Rockhaven wind farm in southern Oklahoma, Meta is expanding its power search. This time, it’s in Texas where the giant tech company signed what are called Environmental Attributes Purchase Agreements with Adapture Renewables for 360 MW of power from two solar projects. …
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** Constellation Energy plans to restart Unit 1 of the former Three Mile Island nuclear power plant as the Crane Clean Energy Center. In a $16 billion deal between owner Constellation Energy and Microsoft to power the tech giant’s AI data centers, Three Mile Island is set to return to service as the Crane Clean …
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** Thousands of households in New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania lose power as temperatures soar above 100 degrees and air conditioning use strains the grid. ** According to the Energy Information Administration, in 2023, nuclear power and renewable energy sources, such as solar power and wind power, accounted for 18% of the total energy …
ERCOT leader confident of meeting summer electrical demands in Texas
As a heat dome hovers over the country, bringing 100 degree or greater temperatures, the head of ERCOT, the Texas grid, is confident it will be able to provide more than enough electricity to power air conditioners. ERCOT President Pablo Vegas also revealed in an interview that the grid has inspected more than 3,000 …
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** The U.S. Supreme Court rules that petroleum producers have standing to sue California over its vehicle emissions rules, saying the firms would be harmed by a gasoline car phaseout. ** Two large California oil refineries are shutting down, triggering mounting concerns from state legislators, industry groups and many others. The Phillips 66 and Valero’s Benicia …
Wind blade operation to leave Cushing
Cushing will no longer be the site of an operation where outdated wind turbine blades are “downsized” and cut into small pieces for the eventual creation of mulch for a steam-generating electric generating plant. John Bok with North Coast Enterprise, the Ohio-based firm that specializes in helping wind farms decommission or dispose of old …
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** Federal authorities are working to contain an oil spill in a tributary of the Cuyahoga River in Cleveland, Ohio, that may have come from a former nearby refinery. ** NASA’s experimental Relay 2 satellite had been dead in the sky since 1967 — until last summer, when it emitted a super-short and very powerful …