Iowa’s U.S. Sen Chuck Grassley has stepped in to see if he can convince President Biden to help an Iowa wind turbine blade maker that is closing its plant in December and eliminating more than 700 jobs. Grassley said he will hope to convince Biden to consider having TPI Composites in Newton, Iowa manufacture …
Category: Wind Energy
Inhofe again wonders about pitfalls of renewable energy sources
Oklahoma U.S. Sen. Jim Inhofe repeated his concern this week that some “green” renewable energy sources carry their own baggage and he pointed to piles of old wind turbine blades as an example. The Senator has spoken previously of his concerns about junkyards of turbine blades and EV batteries and repeated them in a …
Evergy wants more wind powered electricity
Kansas City-based Evergy, a utility serving 1.6 million customers in Kansas and Missouri announced it is seeking bids for more wind energy to supply its electricity needs. The company issued a Request for Proposal seeking bids to purchase wind resources of up to 1,000 megawatts to be in service by 2026. Projects that achieve …
Historic changes are coming to the Texas energy industry
A report by the Federal Reserve Bank of Texas suggests the state’s economy will continue to do well in the coming decades even with a possible and likely long-term decline in the state’s oil and gas sector. But changes are definitely coming to the state’s energy industry. The bank stated in its assessment report …
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** The White House has asked energy companies to help lower fuel prices amid a worldwide rise in energy costs, Reuters reported. Oil and gas companies have spoken with the White House in the preceding days regarding the request, two sources familiar with the matter told Reuters. ** The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) awarded a contract to a …
Missouri county wind turbine regulations near approval
Voters in central Missouri’s Boone County might vote in a few weeks on putting restrictions on wind farm development. County Commissioners plan to unveil their final proposed regulations including the height of wind towers, potential environmental ramifications and visual impacts reported KOMU TV news. In June, the county planning commission recommended restrictions to include: …
SW Kansas wind farm turns 20 years old
It’s been 20 years since NextEra Energy installed a 170-turbine wind farm in southwest Kansas near the small town of Montezuma. NextEra, the same company with numerous wind farms in Oklahoma, gets enough electrical power from the Montezuma operation to power nearly 35,000 homes a year reported the Kansas News Service. Click here for …
Iowa community could lose 900 workers in wind industry
While Iowa is now the second wind-energy state in the nation, it doesn’t guarantee jobs in the industry as one city in the state has learned. Leaders in Newton, Iowa, once home to thousands of jobs for Maytag learned in the past several days that 900 jobs might be lost in two wind energy …
Oklahoma remains strong for wind power
A new report shows Oklahoma continues to be a strong state for wind power, ranking third nationally behind Texas and Iowa for installed generation capacity in 2020 and third nationally for the percentage of electrical power generated by wind. The Department of Energy’s Land-Based Wind Market report showed a record 16,836 megawatts of U.S. wind …
Flexible turbine blades could extend wind power’s reach
Researchers at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory in Colorado say they’re working on ways to making wind turbine blades more bendable so the challenges of transporting them on highways and roads isn’t so difficult. The researchers found that “controlled flexing” might also result in the ability to manufacture longer blades reported the Energy News …