Friday, July 27, 2018
After Texas rejection, utility pulls the plug on nation’s largest wind farm under construction in Oklahoma
Wind Catcher would have been the second-largest wind farm in the world.
President Donald Trump on Tuesday signed an executive order to roll back many Obama-era rules meant to combat climate change.
Oklahoma’s largest utility companies say they’re already on track to meet the carbon-reduction goals in the federal plan.
A legislative measure that would allow electricity utilities to charge higher rates to customers who generate electricity with small solar installations or wind turbines has passed an Oklahoma House committee and now awaits Gov. Mary Fallin’s signature.
One of the state’s largest utilities says it has agreed to decades long contracts for power from new wind farm projects in northwest Oklahoma.