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
Category: Wind Energy
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 …
Hearings start in Kansas for Grain Belt Express Transmission line
The Energy Department plans a series of meetings in the coming weeks on development of the Grain Belt Express Transmission Line Project that will carry wind powered electricity from southwest Kansas through Missouri and to Illinois. The six public “scoping meetings” will focus on the project’s Environmental Impact Statement. They will be held in …
New Mexico and Texas wind farms sold by EDF Renewables to Canadian company
EDF Renewables North America announced it has sold majority ownership of five wind farms in Texas and New Mexico. Canadian-based Boralex acquired EDF Renewables’ 50-percent ownership in the projects totaling 447 megawatts. EDF Renewables put into service all five projects totaling 894 MW with commissioning dates between 2014 and 2015. The sale of assets …
Renewables can’t provide enough power for Kansas
Legislators in Oklahoma made the same argument last year when a February winter storm paralyzed the Midwest, leaving many states dealing with rolling electrical blackouts. The Wichita Eagle reports that some experts now agree—-wind power isn’t a stand-alone energy provider for the state of Kansas. Click here for Wichita Eagle
Missouri’s new cash crop—renewable energy?
The head of an organization promoting renewable energy says Missouri cooperatives fighting such investments are wrong. James Owen is executive director of Renew Missouri and wrote in the Springfield News-Leader that renewable energy could become Missouri’s new reliable cash crop. Click here for Springfield News-Leader
Texas solar and wind power will outpace natural gas in 2023
The government predicts most of the electricity generated in 2023 in Texas will be from from solar and wind power and not natural gas or coal. The U.S. Energy Information Administration made the declaration in its short-term energy outlook report released Tuesday. Click here for The Week
Texas organization takes on wind industry
An oil and gas group based in Austin, Texas is making a national name for itself, fighting wind farms off the east coast of the U.S. and planned wind mills in the Gulf of Mexico. The Texas Public Policy Foundation, backed by oil and gas companies and Republican donors is behind efforts to stall …
Geography explains Oklahoma’s strong wind power presence
There’s a reason why Oklahoma is among the top-wind power states in the country. Its geographical location. The U.S. Energy Information Administration, in a report issued this week showed how the Lower Plains region of Oklahoma, Texas, Kansas and New Mexico has the largest share of U.S. wind capacity at 44% as of August …