Oklahoma Congressman Kevin Hern and other Republicans on the House Ways and Means Committee voted this week to reserve the Biden administration’s suspension of tariffs on solar panels from four Southeast Asian nations. The vote was 26-13 and Democrat Terri Sewell joined the GOP majority in approving the measure that sets up the resolution …
Category: Solar Energy in Oklahoma
Oklahoma Governor hopes to secure Enel solar plant and 1,500 jobs
Oklahoma is reported to be the leading candidate for a solar-panel manufacturing facility that Enel North America wants to build. It already has the support of Gov. Kevin Stitt who is urging the legislature to support an undisclosed incentive package to land the site that could result in 1,500 new jobs in northeast Oklahoma …
US and world energy headlines
** The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) announced on Tuesday that it has approved the construction of a 732-mile high-voltage transmission line across the Western U.S. that will help transport renewable energy. The transmission line, called the TransWest Express Project, will run from south-central Wyoming through northwestern Colorado and central Utah before reaching its endpoint in southern Nevada, …
PSO claims ratepayers will see lower bills due to $2.4 billion renewable energy project
Oklahoma Corporation Commissioners were told Tuesday that ratepayers of Public Service Company will eventually see a rate reduction through the company’s proposed $2.4 billion acquisition of solar and wind farms in Kansas and the Texas Panhandle. “The benefits are immense,” testified Matt Horeled, Vice President of Regulatory and Finance for PSO during a hearing …
Oklahoma regulators to consider PSO’s $2.4 billion renewable energy project
Oklahoma Corporation Commissioners will hold a special meeting Tuesday to consider a settlement of the issues some groups opposed in the $2.4 billion renewable resources project by Public Service Company of Oklahoma. A filing of a stipulation agreement was made and signed by PSO, the Attorney General, the Oklahoma Energy Industrial Consumers, Walmart and …
Other energy headlines
** The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is set as early as next week to propose new rules to spur sweeping cuts in vehicle emissions pollution that will push automakers towards a big increase in electric vehicle sales, sources told Reuters. ** Two former U.S. ambassadors are sounding the alarm on the increasing number of green energy projects nationwide being developed with the involvement …
Panasonic battery plant results in largest solar project in Kansas
The eastern Kansas town of De Soto will not only be home to the $4 billion Panasonic battery plant, but soon to what could be the largest solar project in the state of Kansas. The Panasonic plant is the one sought by Oklahoma last year but the final decision went to Kansas. Now the …
Possible settlement is made over fight against PSO’s $2.4 billion renewable energy plan
The $2.47 billion renewable energy plan proposed by Public Service Company didn’t go through the regulatory process as smoothly as some expected. It ran into opposition. However, an apparent settlement stipulation has been reached by some of the groups that opposed the utility’s request for cost recovery approval from the Corporation Commission. A Thursday …
Correction to BLM sale of solar use of Colorado land
A correction to the story we carried this week regarding the solar auction to be carried out by the Bureau of Land Management in southern Colorado. We characterized the story as indicating the BLM would sell the land but in all reality, it is simply selling the right for commercial solar farm use of …
Vandals hit Arkansas solar panels leaving $160,000 in damages
Someone had it in for the solar panels used to provide power in the city of Midland, Arkansas. They destroyed more than $160,000 in solar panels in recent weeks. The vandalism was recently discovered and sheriff’s officers believe it occurred since February. Midland is located south of Fort Smith, Arkansas and just east of …