More Pacific Northwest Entities Commit to Join SPP’s Markets+ Program The Southwest Power Pool, the agency headquartered in Little Rock, Arkansas and in control of the electric grid in Oklahoma and 13 other states says yet another northwest utility district is joining its extended grid. Grant County Public Utility District and Tacoma Power in Washington …
Tax breaks for data centers are ending around the U.S.
Oklahoma Ahead of Growing Pushback on Data Center Tax Breaks Five years after the Oklahoma legislature approved a measure to keep data centers from qualifying for tax breaks, the movement is growing across the U.S. Several legislatures are considering legislation to slow down or restrict data center development by repealing tax exemptions. Some, such as …
Pipeline might replace cancelled Keystone line
Powder River Basin Could See Major Pipeline Expansion Project Eastern Wyoming’s Powder River Basin, an area where Oklahoma oil and gas operators, including Devon Energy, are busy, could seen a new pipeline project that some say would be a replacement for the cancelled Keystone XL pipeline. The new proposal by Casper-based Bridger Pipeline, would be …
Middle East war hits gas prices in Oklahoma and the U.S.
Oklahoma Gasoline Prices Spike as Iran Conflict Disrupts Oil Shipping Oklahomans are starting to quickly feel the impact the U.S. and Israeli military attacks on Iran are having on them in the form of rapidly rising gasoline and diesel fuel prices. Within one day this week, gasoline prices rose as much as 27 cents per …
Arkansas Oklahoma Gas files rate hike notice
Arkansas Oklahoma Gas Files Notice of Intent for Oklahoma Rate Adjustment While Oklahoma Natural Gas filed a recent rate hike request with Oklahoma regulators, so did another gas supplier in the state. Arkansas Oklahoma Gas Corporation, headquartered in Fort Smith, Arkansas and providing service to nearly 60,000 customers in the two states, recently filed a …
Energy Briefs: Offshore wind, LNG, solar lawsuit
Offshore wind policy and fossil fuel permitting reforms ** Oil lobbyists are asking Trump to back off his attacks on offshore wind, saying his hostility could delay energy permitting reforms that would benefit fossil fuel companies. ** The Trump administration and Westinghouse are reportedly meeting with utilities and nuclear developers as Trump aims to get …
ONG asks for higher rates
Oklahoma Natural Gas Seeks Rate Increase, Citing Lower-Than-Allowed Returns Oklahoma Natural Gas (ONG) says the rates allowed under an Oklahoma Corporation Commission ruling aren’t enough and it needs an increase in rates for its 930,000 residential, commercial and industrial customers. The Oklahoma City-based utility filed a request with the commission last week for an increase …