Tag Archives: green energy
Google Searching for Answers
Google is searching for answers. This time it is using its weight to find energy-related solutions and specifically in the renewable realm. To this end, it has invested nearly $39 million in two wind farms that will generate 170 megawatts of electricity in North Dakota that are owned by NextEra Energy, Inc. Continue reading
Lawsuit seeks environmental analysis by Rural Utilities Service of Holcomb coal-fired power plant expansion
As Sunflower Electric aggressively pushes for expansion of a coal-fired power plant at Holcomb, Kansas, the Sierra Club, represented by Earthjustice, filed court papers last Friday seeking to stop any additional action in support of the expansion project. Continue reading
Growing Away from Big Coal
Last month, a new type of farm sprouted in Brighton, Colo. United Power, the rural electric cooperative that serves the town and a large swath of communities and agricultural lands on the state’s northern Front Range, unveiled what’s been touted as the nation’s first cooperative solar farm. Continue reading
Our work is not done. Examining what led us to a compromise.
Before we move forward, it’s important to examine where we’ve been. Continue reading
We should lead
Saturday’s editorial called for Kansas to lead energy innovation — a goal most Kansans would surely embrace. It also encouraged development of our native Kansas resources, again a laudable objective. Continue reading
Thousands gather in D.C. cold for rally about global warming
WASHINGTON — More than 2,000 clean-energy activists converged at a coal-fired power plant on Capitol Hill on Monday for a protest they billed as the largest display of civil disobedience on the climate crisis in U.S. history. Continue reading
Push for coal plants picks up momentum, but is it enough to pass?
Last year, Kansas backers of coal-burning power plants were like Sisyphus in mythology, doomed to roll a boulder up an incline again and again. Continue reading
