Arkansas-based Ozarks Electric Cooperative and Today’s Power Inc. dedicated a 2.7-megawatt solar energy plant on Friday, according to a published report in Arkansas Business. The station will have about 7 megawatts of energy storage. It will serve the city of Springdale, Elkins Public Schools, Lincoln Public Schools, the city of Lincoln and OzarksGo, a telecommunications …
Oklahoma Corporation Commissioners will hold a regular meeting Thursday morning to first consider their daily signing agenda docket followed by the 24-hour signing agenda docket. They will also receive status updates from Commission Division Directors including possible updates by Tim Rhodes, Director of Administration and Jim Nelson, Human Resources Manager, as a follow up to …
Dana Murphy will serve as the Oklahoma Corporation Commission’s new chairman effective July 1, according to a recent commission bulletin. Commissioner Bob Anthony will serve as vice chairman. Murphy was first elected to the three-member Corporation Commission in 2008 for a partial two-year term. She was re-elected to full six-year terms on July 27, 2010 …
Tesla is now facing a class-action lawsuit when it was recently sued by an owner alleging the automaker broke its promise to provide free charging of its electric vehicles for life, according to a Bloomberg report. Kevin Shenkman filed his complaint in Alameda County, California state court which has jurisdiction over Tesla’s Fremont plant. He alleges …
Oil and gas exploration is on hold across Oklahoma and the rest of the country, despite crude oil prices in the $73 range. Oklahoma’s latest rig count showed no change from a week ago when there were 27 active rigs. It’s still a far cry from the 10 rigs active in the state as …
Data provided by the U.S. Energy Information Administration shows the number of drilled but uncompleted wells in the Anadarko Basin of which Oklahoma is a large part continued to decline as of last month. The EIA reported Monday that it estimated the number of DUCs was about 6,521 in the seven major tight oil …
ONEOK’s Board of Directors recently finalized the annual salary of the company’s newly-named President and Chief Executive Officer, Pierce H. Norton II. A filing with the Securities Exchange Commission revealed Norton will be paid $835,000 a year as of June 28, the effective date he assumes the position according to the filing of the …
If only America’s technology companies could be inoculated against the Biden administration’s reckless climate crisis rhetoric, we’d be better off. Wyoming U.S. Sen. John Barrasso, often times siding with Oklahoma U.S. Sen. James Lankford as members of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee thinks the nation is approaching what he calls the “Biden Climate …
Government leaders in New Mexico announced they plan to create “Clean Car Rules” for their state in a move to make sure there are more “climate-friendly” cars on the road. Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham recently made the announcement and said the state will work with the city of Albuquerque to adopt the clean car …
In an effort to alleviate the growing number of earthquakes in the Permian Basin, a Houston company is expanding its method of recycling oilfield wastewater rather than injecting it back into disposal wells which some contend are the source of the seismic incidents. Breakwater Midstream recently expanded its Big Spring Recycling System in Martin …
