After nearly 20 years in the planning, the $11 billion SunZia transmission line meant to carry wind and solar power from New Mexico through Arizona and to California is close at hand. Transmission towers are still being constructed. But it doesn’t mean the large project is not facing opposition. Click here for WBUR
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Enel Green Power applauds SPP’s $8 billion transmission line improvements
This week’s decision by the Southwest Power Pool to approve nearly $8 billion in transmission line projects has the support of renewable energy Enel Green. Stephen Pike, head of Enel Green Power North America, one of the largest wind operators in the 14-state grid, including Oklahoma, that makes up the SPP, applauded the …
Renewable energy earnings plunged for ALLETE Inc.—wind out of its sails
The third quarter for ALLETE, Inc., the renewable energy operator, wasn’t exactly what leadership wanted. It’s as though the wind was taken out of the sails of its wind farm earnings, including those in Oklahoma. Its earnings totaled $.78 cents on net income of $45 million, a significant drop from the $1.49 a share …
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** Ford’s chief executive revealed that he drives a $30,000 Chinese-made electric sedan — and got ripped by critics, who called it a “slap in the face” to employees of the Detroit-based automaker. Farley, who has been CEO of Ford since October 2020, said he drives a Xiaomi SU7, an electric sedan that retails for $30,000 that he had …
ALLETE Clean Energy sells a Wisconsin wind farm
ALLETE Clean Energy, part of US energy company Allete Inc. and the owner of two Oklahoma wind farms, including its biggest in Johnson and Pontotoc Counties, announced the sale this week of another wind project in southwestern Wisconsin. ALLETE sold the Whitetail wind project to Invenergy. It acquired the project three years ago and …
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Controversial transmission project touted in US Senator’s ad campaign
New Mexico U.S. Sen. Martin Heinrich, a Democrat, came out in a recent TV politcal ad that he supports the controversial SunZia transmission project that stretches from his state to California and Arizona. Developers worked for 20 years to get the 550 mile project approved and in the ad, Sen. Henrich called it a …
Attorneys General elections linked to climate and environment in other states
Oklahoma Attorney General Genter Drummond is not one of them, but attorneys general candidates in 10 other states face elections watched carefully by environmentalists because of climate change and renewable energy. Depending on your point of view about climate change and the development of renewable energy, the election results could prove to be critical—one …
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