Amazon is spreading its global renewable energy portfolio and recently reached 30 solar and wind projects in the southeastern US including two more solar farms in Arkansas. With five new solar and wind projects, Amazon expects to generate more than 7,500GWh once fully operational. It was last fall when two new solar energy projects …
Category: Solar Energy in Oklahoma
Solar farm near historic bird sanctuary in Kansas has opponents
Plans by a Spanish company to build a large solar farm around the historic Cheyenne Bottoms in central Kansas have run into some opposition. Cheyenne Bottoms is described as the largest marsh in the interior of the U.S. as well as the most important shorebird migration point in the western hemisphere. It’s estimated 45% …
Hail destruction and green energy going haywire
The people behind the website, Committee to Unleash Prosperity, are admittedly critical of the Biden administration’s love affair with renewable energy, the subject of climate change and pouring countless billions of dollars into them. Committee founder, Stephen Moore had a critical take on the recent story we reported concerning baseball sized hail and what …
Nebraska solar farm destroyed by baseball-sized hail
Leave it to mother nature to show one weakness of solar farms….hail. The size of baseballs. It fell recently and destroyed a solar farm in Scottsbluff, Nebraska. It shattered nearly every one of the panels on the 5.2 megawatt solar project according to the Cowboy State Daily. Don Day, Cowboy State Daily meteorologist, said …
Wind and solar power beat coal for electricity production
All of those wind farms in Oklahoma helped generate more electricity than coal for the first time ever in the U.S. according to new federal information. E&E News recently reported coal lost out to wind and solar power. Together, the two renewable energy sources produced a combined 252 terawatt-hours in the first five months …
Ohio townships ban solar and wind farms
Not everyone is eager to jump onto the band wagon of wind and solar power. Just look at what seven townships did in southwestern Ohio. They banned commercial wind and solar projects because of the strong pushback from local residents such Mary Durbin of Tate Township in Clermont County where a public meeting was …
Energy quick reads
** Sen. John Barrasso (Wyo.), the top Republican on the Senate Energy Committee, called on the Energy Department’s Office of Inspector General to investigate Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm after she conceded to wrongly telling the committee she does not own individual stocks. ** The right-to-repair movement has suffered a setback in Massachusetts this week. The …
Xcel Energy makes another shift to renewable energy in New Mexico and Texas
Xcel Energy says it plans to build three solar energy operations in the Permian Basin area of southeast New Mexico and west Texas as the company shifts toward renewables. The company said the solar generating sites will be in Hobbs, New Mexico and Earth, Texas. The projects will augment existing power plants—the Cunningham Generating …
Solar power fell short for OGE in its $331 million rate hike project
Documents and testimony in the $331 million rate hike request made by Oklahoma Gas and Electric with Oklahoma regulators show the utility encountered challenges in attempting to obtain new power through solar energy. The utility is seeking the rate hike to cover the replacement of aging power generating units at its Horseshoe Lake Power Plant …
House failed to override Biden’s solar panel veto
Even though all five Oklahoma Representatives in the U.S. House stood locked in their support of resuming solar power tariffs against China and other Asia manufacturers, it wasn’t enough to override President Biden’s veto of a Congressional review Act. The House fell short this week of the required two-thirds majority on a 214-205 vote, …