{"id":30568,"date":"2018-07-27T16:22:02","date_gmt":"2018-07-27T21:22:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/?p=30568"},"modified":"2018-07-27T16:26:20","modified_gmt":"2018-07-27T21:26:20","slug":"after-texas-rejection-utility-pulls-the-plug-on-nations-largest-wind-farm-under-construction-in-oklahoma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/2018\/07\/27\/after-texas-rejection-utility-pulls-the-plug-on-nations-largest-wind-farm-under-construction-in-oklahoma\/","title":{"rendered":"After Texas rejection, utility pulls the plug on nation\u2019s largest wind farm under construction in Oklahoma"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_30570\"  class=\"wp-caption module image aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1500px;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-30570\" src=\"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/files\/2018\/07\/wind-catcher-site.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1500\" height=\"1125\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/files\/2018\/07\/wind-catcher-site.jpeg 1500w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/files\/2018\/07\/wind-catcher-site-500x375.jpeg 500w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/files\/2018\/07\/wind-catcher-site-768x576.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/files\/2018\/07\/wind-catcher-site-150x113.jpeg 150w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/files\/2018\/07\/wind-catcher-site-300x225.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/files\/2018\/07\/wind-catcher-site-620x465.jpeg 620w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/files\/2018\/07\/wind-catcher-site-1440x1080.jpeg 1440w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/files\/2018\/07\/wind-catcher-site-1376x1032.jpeg 1376w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/files\/2018\/07\/wind-catcher-site-1044x783.jpeg 1044w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/files\/2018\/07\/wind-catcher-site-632x474.jpeg 632w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/files\/2018\/07\/wind-catcher-site-536x402.jpeg 536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1500px) 100vw, 1500px\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-media-credit\">AEP<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Aerial view of the Wind Catcher site in Oklahoma&#8217;s Panhandle.<\/p>\n<\/div><p>American Electric Power on Friday <a href=\"https:\/\/www.psoklahoma.com\/info\/news\/viewRelease.aspx?releaseID=2677\">canceled construction<\/a> of the largest U.S. wind farm in the Oklahoma Panhandle after utility regulators in Texas rejected the project.<\/p><p>The Ohio-based company started work on the $4.5 billion <a href=\"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/2017\/07\/28\/largest-u-s-wind-farm-under-construction-in-oklahomas-panhandle\/\">Wind Catcher<\/a> project in 2016. By 2020, the wind farm was expected to deliver 2,000 megawatts from 800 turbines, which would have made it the largest wind farm in the country and the second-largest in the world.<\/p><p>Wind Catcher was awaiting approval from the Oklahoma Corporation Commission through the company&#8217;s subsidiary utility Public Service Company of Oklahoma. The project would have included a 350-mile transmission line to carry electricity from the Panhandle to a substation in Tulsa and onto customers in Arkansas, Louisiana and Texas.<\/p><p>AEP pulled the plug on Wind Catcher after the Public Utility Commission of Texas voted unanimously to reject approval of the project, saying it didn\u2019t do enough for ratepayers there.<\/p><p>\u201cWe are disappointed with the decision in Texas that resulted in the cancelation of the project. Wind Catcher represented an extraordinary opportunity to provide our customers with low cost, clean Oklahoma energy and create a positive economic impact across the state,\u201d Steven Fate, PSO\u2019s vice president of regulatory and finance, said in a statement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>American Electric Power on Friday canceled construction of the largest U.S. wind farm in the Oklahoma Panhandle after utility regulators in Texas rejected the project.The Ohio-based company started work on the $4.5 billion Wind Catcher project in 2016. By 2020, the wind farm was expected to deliver 2,000 megawatts from 800 turbines, which would have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":30570,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[490],"tags":[536,713,144],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30568"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/36"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30568"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30568\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30574,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30568\/revisions\/30574"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30570"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}