Kansas and Missouri customers of Liberty Utilities could be hit with a rate hike while it’s unclear if the company’s customers in Oklahoma and Arkansas will see an increase in their bills. Liberty filed requests with the Missouri Public Service Commission to increase rates for customers in Missouri and Kansas. The Joplin Globe reported …
Category: Wind Energy
European wind farm operator sues state of Texas
A Germany utility with operations in Texas has filed suit against the state for its handling of the power markets during the February winter storm. Wind-park owner RWE contends the intervention in the power markets by the Public Utility Commission of Texas cost the firm nearly $500 million. The lawsuit was also filed against …
Minnesota family-owned company will build one-third of U.S. wind projects this year
A family-owned wind power construction company located in Avon, Minnesota expects to build nearly one-third of all the wind projects in the U.S. including some in Oklahoma. Blattner Energy, formerly D.H. Blattner & Son’s Co. has more than 450 wind and solar projects to its name and built several of the wind farms in …
ALLETE’s CEO named board chair
The board of directors of ALLETE Inc., the Duluth, Minnesota energy firm with wind farms in southern and western Oklahoma picked company President and CEO Bethany M. Owen to be chair of the board. The move was effective Tuesday of this week. Owen has served as ALLETE’s president since 2019 and chief executive officer …
KCI airport now powered 100% by wind energy
A wind farm in southwest Kansas is now providing 100% of the electricity to power the Kansas City International Airport. The electrical power comes from the Cimarron Bend wind farm in Clark County where Ashland is the largest city. KSHB 41 also reported that in addition to the municipally owned airport, KCMO said …
Texas wind city challenged on issue of old wind turbine blades
For years, Sweetwater, Texas proclaimed itself to be the Wind Energy Capital of North America. Now the city that took pride in the industry is facing a new challenge—what to do with all the old and out dated huge wind turbine blades. Sweetwater is working on a solution of how to dispose of the …
Liberty Utilities adds another wind farm in SE Kansas
Kansas got another wind farm online this past week. This time the wind project is in the southeast corner of the state. Liberty Utilities put the Neosho Ridge Wind Farm online in the past few days as the company entered the final phase in its largest ever renewable energy project reported KSN. Click here …
Enel Green Power builds 11th Oklahoma wind farm
Renewable energy producer Enel Green Power has launched construction on another new wind farm in southcentral Oklahoma—its 11th wind project in the state. The company announced the 140 MW Rockhaven wind project is being built in Garvin and Carter Counties and is adjacent to the Origin wind farm which Enel has operated since 2015. …
Farm Bureau leader fights ’eminent domain’ for Grainbelt Express Transmission Line
The planned Grain Belt Express which is designed to carry electricity from Southwest Kansas wind farms through Missouri and to Illinois is being attacked by the President of the Missouri Farm Bureau. Writing in a Missouri newspaper, Garrett Hawkins said the use of eminent domain for the construction of the transmission line sets a very …
Wind farm operator’s 1Q earnings hurt by Oklahoma winter storm
The severe winter weather that hit Oklahoma in February ended up affecting financial operations of wind-farm operator ALLETE Clean Energy. The Duluth, Minnesota-based company with wind farm operations near Ardmore and Anadarko reported first quarter 2021 earnings of 99 cents per share on net income of $51.8 million. Last year’s results were $1.28 per share …