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Bloomberg ($): The U.S. installed a record amount of wind-generating capacity last year, adding nearly 17,000 megawatts of power on land, according to an Energy Department report being released Monday. Wind energy’s share of total utility-scale generating capacity in the U.S. was only 11% in 2020, behind natural gas at 43% and nuclear and coal […]
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Wall Street Journal ($): A growing fight is unfolding across the U.S. as cities consider phasing out natural gas for home cooking and heating, citing concerns about climate change, and states push back against these bans. Major cities including San Francisco, Seattle, Denver and New York have either enacted or proposed measures to ban or […]
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S&P Global Market Intelligence ($): On the eve of the Missouri Legislature’s last day in session this year, state lawmakers on May 13 gave near-unanimous consent to an energy transition financing bill heralded by utilities and renewable energy advocates as a way to keep costs in check as the state replaces aging coal-fired power plants […]
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The Guardian: Kevin Good is the president of a small solar power company in Kansas – a state that tends to be so sunny you’d think he’d have it made. “I got into solar at maybe the worst point to do so in the last 50 years,” said Good, who runs Good Energy Solutions in […]
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S&P Global Market Intelligence ($): The COVID-19 pandemic proved to be a significant disruption for many corners of the global energy industry, but the corporate renewables market plowed ahead as if nothing had happened. S&P Global Market Intelligence tracked over 20,000 MW of new corporate wind and solar capacity throughout the year, making 2020 the […]
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Energy News Network: In a reversal from previous legislative sessions, Kansas City utility Evergy is backing proposals in two states aimed at buffering customers and investors from the costs associated with accelerated coal plant retirements. Securitization legislation has gone nowhere in both the Kansas and Missouri legislatures for several years. Evergy, which serves about 1.6 […]
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ReNews.biz: Enel Green Power North America has started operating a 199MW expansion of the Cimarron Bend wind farm in Kansas, raising overall capacity to 599MW, and also brought online the over 236MW White Cloud project in Missouri. Cimarron Bend in Clark County is now Enel Green Power’s largest renewable energy project in the world. Construction […]
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S&P Global Market Intelligence ($): NextEra Energy Resources LLC has plans to install up to 500 MW of solar generation and up to 500 MW of battery storage in a county just southwest of Kansas City, Kan., according to a project overview posted on the company’s website. Referred to as the West Gardner Solar Project, […]
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Case study Nolan County: Strengthening jobs, economic development, tax base
August 10, 2020 (IEEFA) — The wind industry in West Texas continues to create jobs, increase local tax revenues and drive economic development in an area known historically for its boom-and-bust oil cycles, concludes a report published today by the Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis (IEEFA). The report—As Oil and Gas Wane, Texas […]
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Kansas City Business Journal: Evergy Inc. announced on Wednesday a new five-year strategic plan designed to speed its transition to cleaner energy and — importantly — to do so as a stand-alone company. The plan results from a review by a special committee put together by the Kansas City-based utility and activist investor Elliott Management […]
IEEFA U.S.: As oil and gas wane, Texas wind industry ascends
Case study Nolan County: Strengthening jobs, economic development, tax baseAugust 10, 2020 (IEEFA) — The wind industry in West Texas continues to create jobs, increase local tax revenues and drive economic development in an area known historically for its boom-and-bust oil cycles, concludes a report published today by the Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis (IEEFA). The report—As Oil and Gas Wane, Texas […]