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  When winds of 70 mph to 100 mph were forecast last week in Colorado, utility company Xcel Energy thought it was doing the right thing by implementing pre-planned power outages to more than 55,000 customers along the Front Range. It wanted to prevent wildfires. Now Boulder County officials are …

(Pajarito Powder CEO Tom Stephenson and project principal investigator Michele Ostraat stand in Pajarito’s new facility in December 2023. Jon Austria / Journal)   The federal government just handed out $20 million for a clean hydrogen energy project in New Mexico and it all went to one company. The $20 million …

  Scott Mitchell and Jerry Bohnen take a look at how the Oklahoma State Fair coliseum-naming rights controversy focused media attention on the struggle between consumer groups and local utilities over the deployment of tens of millions of dollars in federal funds destined for the modernization of Oklahoma’s transmission grid. …

Crude oil prices suffered a dollar a barrel loss in Tuesday’s trading as Middle East countries encountered resistance to their proposed peace in Gaza where Israel is still attempting to eliminate Hamas. There are existing concerns that without an end to the fighting, Iran, OPEC’s third-largest producer, might be drawn …

    If a controversial bill that started as a ROFR or Right of First Refusal Bill and morphed into what critics labeled a NOFR bill, is to survive in the Oklahoma legislature, it faces a Thursday deadline. If the Oklahoma Senate Rules Committee doesn’t take a vote by Thursday, …

    A report by a Tulsa TV station shows that history is catching up with the state in terms of pollution of the Arkansas River. KTUL TV revealed this week how former oil wells, drilled in the middle of the river and now abandoned, are also leaking and polluting …

Yes, the solar eclipse affected renewable energy production in Texas. The committed capacity of ERCOT, the power grid operator in Texas, definitey dropped in solar energy. Click here for Fox 4 KDFW news The post Texas power grid affected by solar eclipse on Monday first appeared on Oklahoma Energy Today.

Two student entrepreneur teams from the University of Oklahoma are set to compete in a ‘Shark Tank’ style competition in Minneapolis, with a shot at the $50,000 first prize to help get their invention into the marketplace.  Side Coach Sports is a platform that connects college athletes to youth athletes for …

  Oklahoma Corporation Commissioner Bob Anthony lashed out again this week at another one-page audit over hundreds of millions of dollars in 2021 winter storm Uri bond costs by Public Service Company of Oklahoma. In a filing with the commission, Anthony derided the audit filed last week by Commission Chairman …

  From one of the U.S. to the other…millions were dazzled by the total solar eclipse on Monday. They oohed and awed as the moon first was a blip on the edge of the sun, then slowly moved across the view until an hour later, it blotted out the sun, …