Oklahoma Gas and Electric, a subsidiary of Oklahoma City-based OGE Energy Corp. , announced that it will expand its Choctaw Nation/OG&E Solar Energy Center in Durant, Oklahoma by an additional 5-megawatts (MW), bringing the total solar capacity to 10 MW. OG&E will construct, own and operate the additional 5MW expansion, which is expected to come online by the …
Oklahoma-based Love’s Family of Companies joined with Cargill in announcing a 50/50 joint venture in producing and marketing renewable diesel fuel. The two companies plan to construct a new production plant in Hastings, Nebraska, one with the ability to produce an estimated 80 million gallons annually of renewable diesel, a green fuel experiencing strong, …
Oklahoma City-based Mammoth Energy Services, Inc. will hold its annual meeting of stockholders on June 2, 2021. A proxy filing by Mammoth with the Securities and Exchange Commission indicated the meeting will be held at 10 a.m. Central Time at 14201 Caliber rive, Suite 300 in Oklahoma City. The meeting will include the election …
After starting the week with a slight increase, crude oil prices in the US and in Europe suffered losses in Tuesday’s trading and many Oklahoma energy stocks followed suit. West Texas Intermediate crude for May delivery suffered a 94 cent loss to $62.44 a barrel in trading on the New York Mercantile Exchange. In …
The Chesapeake Energy Arena is being renamed following the emergence of Chesapeake Energy from its recent Chapter 11 bankruptcy. The Oklahoma City Thunder made the announcement Tuesday morning on its website stating it was focused on identifying a new long-term naming rights partner and in the interim, the building would continue to be called …
After the February storm hit Liberty Power hard in Texas, the company this week fired every one of its employees. The electricity retailer serves customers in nearly a dozen states and told workers to hit the door with not even a 60-day notice. Click here for Bloomberg News story.
What Oklahoma leaders proposed in softening the blow of exorbitant February natural gas prices to consumers has become law in Kansas. Gov. Laura Kelly signed legislation that not only extended consumers’ payments of the winter storm costs but also offered financial incentive for utility companies transitioning from coal plants to newer solar or wind …
Landowners in northern Missouri press their fight against the large Grain Belt Express transmission line that will carry wind-powered electricity from southwest Kansas to Illinois. They object to the project’s use of eminent domain and urge the Missouri Senate to join the House in passing a bill to prohibit the involuntary seizing of land. …
Oklahoma ranked 33rd in the sixth annual Clean Energy Jobs Report released this week, a report that also showed for the first time a drop in the number of overall jobs in the clean energy sector. The report showed Oklahoma had 22,765 workers employed in the sector as of 2020 with 3,199 in renewables; …
A southern Oklahoma wind farm is part of tech giant Amazon’s ramp-up of its renewable energy capacity around the world. The company announced this week the addition of nine new utility-scale wind and solar energy projects including a Murray County wind farm with 118 megawatts of power. It is one of several projects in …
