Blinking red lights atop western Kansas wind farms are now the topic of legislation in Kansas. Senators in the state legislature are considering a bill to control when the red lights are activated, this after residents complained how they were annoyed by the lights reported the Kansas Reflector. Click here for Kansas Reflector
Category: Wind Energy
Apex Clean Energy awards $1.2 Million to conservation efforts in Kansas, Iowa, and Texas
Apex Clean Energy, a company with wind farm operations in Oklahoma, announced the recipients of its 2022 Conservation Grant Program, totaling $1.2 million in funding for conservation projects near the company’s commercialized renewable energy sites. The program, which represents the first of its kind within the clean energy industry, contributed $1.7 million in its …
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** The U.S. Forest Service has finalized a rule restoring protections rolled back under the Trump administration for the Tongass National Forest in Alaska, the largest such forest in the U.S. ** Data from the Bureau of Land Management shows that President Biden approved more oil and gas drilling permits in his first two years …
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** The Energy Information Administration at the U.S. Department of Energy believes the price of petroleum products (crude oil, gasoline and diesel) will decline 5% to 10% this year from its previous predictions. EIA’s forecast crude oil will average $77 per barrel in 2023, which is $11 less than its previous prediction of $86. ** U.S. natural gas futures …
Oklahoma’s collapsed wind tower among growing number throughout the world
The collapse of a wind turbine last June in northern Oklahoma near the town of Ames was jus one of a growing number of such incidents in the wind power industry. Such collapses, often involving some of the tallest wind towers in the industry have also occurred in Colorado, Germany and Sweden reported Popular …
$2 billion wind transmission line planned for northern New Mexico
A $2 billion, 400-mile high voltage transmission line will be constructed across northern New Mexico to carry wind power. The New Mexico Renewable Energy Transmission Agency announced the new joint development agreement with the private company, Invenergy Transmission. RETA hopes to start the operations in 2028. Click (Powerful clean-energy line to crisscross NM – …
New Mexico rancher fights state’s wind farm development on state land
A rancher who sued over wind farm development on the land he leased from the State of New Mexico ended up this week in New Mexico Supreme Court. The Blanchard Corona Ranch contended the wind lease development interfered with his grazing leases and abilities to raise cattle on the state trust land reported the …
Evergy blames renewable energy additions and inflation for higher capital expenditures
Capital expenditure plans by Evergy, the largest electricity utility in Kansas, grew more than $1 billion and the giant company blames inflation as well as the addition of more renewable energy. It could result in higher electricity rates this year in Kansas reported the Kansas Reflector. Click here for Kansas Reflector
Nebraska senators target state’s largest utilities with bill to ban solar and wind farms
Two State Senators in Nebraska filed a bill this week to block the state’s largest electric utilities from constructing or acquiring renewable energy operations or using eminent domain to carry out the acquisitions. The Senators represent most of the Nebraska Panhandle as well as part of the Sandhills in the northern part of the …
Work to begin on world’s largest wind farm in southern Wyoming
Groundbreaking could be this year on a planned $5 billion 1,000 wind turbine power project in Wyoming that could create the largest wind farm in the world. Much of the work will be on the Overland Trail Ranch south of Rawlins, a ranch owned by Denver billionaire Phillips Anschutz, who once owned The Oklahoman …