Enel North America, the company that built 13 wind farms in Oklahoma, formally announced Monday it had officially chosen Inola in northeastern Oklahoma as the location for its nearly $1.8 billion solar panel manufacturing operation. The plant will be built at the Tulsa Port of Inola and the site had been widely promoted by …
New investors sought by coal producer Alliance Resource Partners
Leaders of Tulsa-based Alliance Resource Partners, L.P., a major coal-mining company, plan to seek investors during a conference Tuesday in Florida. Joseph W. Craft III, Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer, and others of his management team will take part in the investor meetings at the 20th Annual Energy Infrastructure council CEO & Investor …
Oklahoma rolls ahead with development of EV charging network
Oklahoma’s Department of Transportation took the next step as it prepares to use $66 million in federal funding for development of an EV charging network across the state. ODOT announced this week it posted the DRAFT Request for Proposals for its National Electric Vehicle Infrastructure (NEVI) Competitive Procurement for Electric Vehicle (EV) charging stations program. …
EIA predicts fall in crude oil prices for rest of 2023 and in 2024
The U.S. Energy Information Administration came out this week with a prediction of lower crude oil prices not only for the remainder of 2023 but also for 2024. “We lowered our crude oil price forecast for the rest of 2023 and for 2024 in our May Short-Term Energy Outlook (STEO) because of relatively rapid declines …
AAA predicts Oklahoma Memorial Day weekend travel to be as heavy as before the COVID pandemic
AAA Oklahoma is projecting that more than 550,000 Oklahoma residents will travel a distance of 50 miles or more over the Memorial Day Weekend. As usual, the large majority, or more than 82%, will be driving to their destinations, though air travel and travel by other …
$32 million federal grand to study carbon capture hub near Pueblo, Colorado
The Federal government just awarded $32 million to the Colorado School of Mines to develop a carbon sequestration hub near Pueblo. The region near Pueblo has large carbon emissions from two power plants and cement kiln. The Department of Energy grant will be used by the School of Mines and the Los Alamos National …
Electrical deregulation debate is still alive and well in Oklahoma
Oklahoma hasn’t seen the last of the debate on calls for giving power customers the right to choose where they get their electricity For nearly 3 years, there has been a push for electrical deregulation, namely from the Alliance for Electrical Restructuring in Oklahoma, or AERO. Opposition to AERO arose again over the weekend …
Montana develops as climate battleground
While many think of Montana as Big Sky country, to environmentalists and others it is a state emerging as a climate battleground to watch. That’s because Gov. Greg Gianforte recently signed a law barring the state from using climate impacts to determine major projects. On top of that, a state judge ruled a first-of-its-kind …
National electric power group warns of summer energy shortfalls
A large part of the U.S., including Oklahoma, could face energy shortfall this summer because of the heat warned a national electric power group in a recent release. It came from the North American Electric Reliability Corporation which issued its 2023 Summer Reliability Assessment. The assessment warned that two-thirds of North America is at risk …
China’s “economic coercion” gains attention of Oklahoma Representatives
Just a few weeks after Oklahoma Congressman Tom Cole complained of the Chinese Communist Party using “economic coercion” to intimidate its neighbors, it was the key subject to weekend discussion at the G-7 summit in Japan. As OK Energy Today reported earlier in May, Rep. Cole complained how the CCP u8sed economic coercion for its …
