Category: Wind Energy

Increased 3Q revenues reported for NextEra Energy

  When NextEra Energy’s president said the third quarter revenues were strong, he wasn’t kidding. With Oklahoma wind farm operations adding to its revenue, NextEra Energy, Inc. reported third quarter net income of $1,852 billion or 90 cents a share….up from the $1.219 billion and 60 cents a share reported in the third quarter of …

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** Dozens of U.S. Representatives from both political parties urged the Biden administration to toughen sanctions on Russian oil shipments and questioned an exception issued to the world’s largest oilfield company SLB to operate in the country. ** General Motors will invest $625 million to partner in developing a lithium mine in Nevada that will help …

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** Nearly three weeks after a geyser shoy 100 feet into the air from a Reeves County, Texas oilfield, it is still gushing. The blowout is at an old well, once owned by a Kinder Morgan subsidiary. ** Labor advocates say training unionized oil and gas workers to plug orphaned oil and gas wells would help …

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State House Committee to hold interim study on energy in Oklahoma

  The wind industry, the Kiamichi River hydroelectric project and other related issues will be focused on Tuesday by members of the Oklahoma House Energy and Natural Resources Committee. They will spend the entire day discussing the issues prior to the start of the 2025 session of the Oklahoma legislature. Energy Generation will be the …

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** Boeing is exploring asset sales in a bid to boost its fragile finances by shedding its non-core or underperforming units, the Wall Street Journal reported on Sunday. The planemaker last week reached an agreement to offload a small defense unit that makes surveillance equipment for the U.S. military, the paper reported, citing people familiar with the …

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Kansas saw big jump in clean energy jobs in 2023

  The state of Kansas saw a 5% increase in clean energy jobs last year according to a new  Clean Jobs Midwest’s report. As a result, Kansas had 26,058 people working in the clean energy industry, far more than in 2019 when 24,812 worked in the industry. The report found 761,000 people were employed by …

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** An ethanol plant in central Illinois has stopped injecting carbon dioxide (CO2) into the ground after a potential leak was discovered on the property for the second time this year. The problems at the Archer Daniels Midland (ADM) plant raise questions about the safety of about 150 other carbon capture wells proposed across the …

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Federal Reserve banks to explore how to meet rising energy demand

  Among the speakers at next month’s 2024 Energy Conference sponsored by the Federal Reserve Banks of Kansas City and Dallas will be Devon Energy leader Rick Muncrief. He is slated as one of those who will speak at the conference on Wednesday, Nov. 13 at the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, 2200 N Pearl …

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** Alaska officials urge a court to dismiss youth advocates’ lawsuit alleging a state-sponsored proposed liquefied natural gas pipeline and export terminal would exacerbate climate change. ** Amazon.com Inc. and billionaire financier Ken Griffin are among the backers anchoring a $500 million investment in small nuclear reactors, a burgeoning technology heralded as the next era for …

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** The Standing Rock Sioux Tribe files a new lawsuit claiming the Dakota Access pipeline is operating illegally after the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers flouted regulations to allow the project. ** The Port of Corpus Christi and its customers moved 53 million tons through the Corpus Christi Ship Channel in the third quarter of 2024, a …

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