Oklahoma regulators delayed a decision Monday whether to increase the state’s long-term allowable natural gas production proration rate but will meet Tuesday to consider extending the emergency rate of 100% approved during the winter storm. Oklahoma Corporation Commissioners listened to testimony by a Commission specialist who had recommended increasing the national gas production rate …
“I firmly believe it is not the governments job to pick winners and losers in our fuel mix”—Rep. Markwayne Mullin Oklahoma Congressman Markwayne Mullin went after the “radical left” and “overregulation” in a recent op-ed piece for The Hill in which he defended the fossil fuel industry during the cold spell that killed dozens and …
The large plan to carry southwest Kansas wind powered electricity across Missouri and to Illinois ran into more problems in the Missouri legislature. The Missouri House voted to ban the use of eminent domain for the Grain Belt Express power line. The vote was 123-33 in favor of the bill which would prevent the …
A study by a coalition of renewable energy groups claims grid-enhancing technologies in Oklahoma and Kansas could help the two states integrate more than 5,200 megawatts of new renewable generation by 2025. The study entitled “Unlocking the Queue” and done by the Working for Advanced Transmission Technologies Coalition focused on Oklahoma and Kansas and …
Writing in USA Today, contributor Jason Hayes has another opinion about the massive power failure in Texas—that the state’s renewable energy sources were so large because of state mandates and federal subsidies and in turn, it led in part to the deadly situation. He says the outages were “inevitable.” “Over a decade of misguided …
The rolling blackouts and the frigid weather that gripped Oklahoma last week gave pause for editors at the Enid News and Eagle to suggest…oil and gas are still reliable sources of energy. In an editorial over the weekend, the newspaper took note— ” With respect to the electrical problems faced in Oklahoma and Texas, in …
Reports indicate that the state of Texas, was literally minutes away from possible power outages lasting months, not hours as the historic freeze gripped the state and interfered in power production. As the status of rolling blackouts and power production improved late in the week, Bill Magness, President and CEO of the Electric Reliability Council …
The same day President Biden defended his anti-fossil fuel program and spoke of good-paying renewable energy jobs, ill winds blew at wind-turbine manufacturer Vestas as the company laid off 450 workers at its Colorado manufacturing plants. As reported by the Pueblo Chieftain, the Danish company laid off 120 workers at its tower-manufacturing plant in …
Defenders of renewable energy are firing back claiming frozen wind turbines were not the main cause of the massive power challenges confronting residents of Texas and Oklahoma. The issue melted into a political one between conservatives and liberals. A few days after some observers had noted that wind turbines were frozen in West Texas …
National Climate Adviser Gina McCarthy recently rubbed someone the wrong way when she said it was time to get “the middle of the country understanding and active on climate.” That someone was Sen. Chuck Grassley, the Republican from Senator who has been a major supporter of biofuels. He didn’t care for her comment about …
