American Electric Power has secured enough state regulator approvals to move ahead with a 1,485-megawatt wind power project in Oklahoma — even if Texas regulators end up denying its plans. AEP announced that it has received approvals from Louisiana and Arkansas regulators that will allow its $2 billion North Central Wind project to move ahead. The wind farms being developed …
Oklahomans are used to see the state’s vast horizon broken by wind-generating turbines, but none are in the lakes and waters of the state. However the nation’s first fresh-water wind farm has won approval in the state of Ohio where one is planned to be located in Lake Erie near Cleveland. But as electrek …
Northwest Missouri has another wind farm online, providing electrical power to the region. US companies Tenaska and Bright Canyon Energy have started commercial operations at a 242MW wind farm in northwest Missouri. The Clear Creek Energy Center comprises 111 Vestas turbines spread across 12,545 hectares north of Maryville in Nodaway County according to a …
Work is underway on the latest wind farm being built in New Mexico. The 306MW La Joya wind farm, located in south central New Mexico is the second to be constructed by Avangrid Renewables, a company based in Portland, Oregon. The project will comprise 111 turbines, of which 74 will be on state trust land …
No deadlines or dates were announced, but the Trump administration says it will give the wind industry more time to claim subsidies that were about to expire, a move announced because of the global coronavirus pandemic. The Treasury Department said it has agreed to change rules governing the key renewable energy tax credits, a win …
Construction is underway on the wind farms being built by Liberty Utilities in Southeast Kansas and Southwest Missouri. The first of more than 270 wind turbines Liberty Utilities is building in Southwest Missouri and Southeast Kansas has been completed. It could provide electrical power for the region as early as next year according to the …
American Electric Power CEO Nick Akins says May will be “an important month” for its 1.5 GW North Central wind project, telling analysts during Wednesday’s Q1 earnings call that the company expects action soon by Louisiana and Texas regulators. The North Central project involves the purchase of three wind facilities being developed by Invenergy in Oklahoma — 199 …
While ALLETE, Inc. added to its wind power in Oklahoma in the first quarter of the year, the Duluth, Minnesota based company reported a drop in earnings in the first quarter of the year. Earnings in the first quarter of this year were $1.28 a share on net income of $66.3 million compared to $1.37 …
Dakota County Commissioners in northeast Nebraska are considering a moratorium on more construction of wind farms. The proposal is to keep wind farms out of the county for the foreseeable future. On the agenda for the board’s meeting this week is a moratorium that would prohibit “… all applications, installations and projects involving wind energy …
Like oil and gas companies, the country’s renewable energy industry is suffering too from the coronavirus pandemic. It has delayed construction and put thousands of skilled laborers on the unemployment lines as solar and wind projects are delayed. In locked-down California, some local agencies that issue permits for new work closed temporarily, and some …
