A string of unpaid bills and broken promises. It was the testimony in the federal fraud trial of two men accused of deceiving investors in a wind farm they promised to build in northwest Arkansas. Their trial began this week in Fayetteville according to the Northwest Arkansas Democrat-Gazette. Click here for Democrat-Gazette.
Category: Wind Energy
Kansas and Texas workers to be part of building first off-shore wind substation
The impact of the first American-built offshore wind substation to serve New York’s Long Island stretches from Kansas to Texas. In partnering for the South Fork Wind project, Orsted and Eversource announced work has started on the project. The two firms chose Omaha, Nebraska-based Kiewit Offshore Services, the largest offshore fabricator in the nation …
Energy news in brief
** The Minnesota Supreme Court on Tuesday declined to hear an appeal by opponents of Enbridge Energy’s Line 3 oil pipeline, letting stand a key decision by independent regulators to allow construction on the project to proceed. ** North Dakota’s attorney general files a motion seeking to resume oil and gas leasing on public lands. ** U.S. Energy Storage Association …
Enel Green studies ways to re-use wind turbine blades
Enel Green Power North America, the same firm with wind farm operations throughout Oklahoma is using a National Science Foundation grant to study ways to find new sources for wind turbine blades. The energy company is working with Re-Wind.info in carrying out research in Kansas according to Shawna Bethell who wrote about the project …
Fraud trial begins in Arkansas wind farm scheme
The federal trial of two men accused of scamming investors in a wind-farm scheme got underway this week in Fayetteville, Arkansas. Jody Douglas Davis and Phillips Vincent Ridings were hit with the charges 3 years ago and charged with defrauding six investors in the wind farm that was supposed to be built near Elm …
South Korean firm takes over largest wind manufacturing plant in Colorado
The world’s largest wind tower manufacturing plant located in Pueblo, Colorado is now in the hands of a South Korean company. CS wind officially took over the operation this week after it purchased the Pueblo plant from Denmark-based Vestas reported the Pueblo Chieftain. Click here for Chieftain story.
Plans unveiled by NextEra Energy for largest wind farm in Kansas
NextEra Energy Resources is unveiling plans for the largest wind farm to be built in Kansas and hopes to win approval in several months. The company has plans for the 600-megawatt High Banks Wind Energy Center to be located in Washington and Republic counties. Plans for the wind farm will be presented to county …
Wind farm construction costs declined 27% since 2013
The U.S. Energy Information Administration reported the average U.S. construction cost for wind farms in Oklahoma, Kansas, Texas and other states plunged significantly since 2013 even as onshore wind generating capacity nationwide increased 74%. The EIA stated that the average cost fell from $1,895 per kilowatt in 2013 to $1,391 per kilowatt in 2019. …
Oklahoma Wind Farm to Power Alabama Life Insurance Company Headquarters
A wind farm in Grant County, Oklahoma is collaborating with Alabama Power to provide 100% renewable energy power for the Birmingham headquarters of Protective Life Corporation. According to a published report in The Journal Record, the Chisholm View Wind Farm in Hunter, Oklahoma has a long-term contract with Alabama Power as a renewable energy resource. …
Energy news in brief
** The U.S. Energy Information Administration reported U.S. petroleum consumption decreased to a 25-year low in 2020. The 18.1 million barrels a day of petroleum products consumed decreased in every energy-consuming sector. ** U.S. oil company ConocoPhillips is aiming to collect some $115 million that Jamaica’s government owes Venezuela to partly enforce a $2 billion arbitral …
