Wind power company Enel Green Power (EGP) and beer maker Anheuser-Busch announced an agreement Wednesday whereby Anheuser-Busch will purchase more than half the energy capacity of the Thunder Ranch wind farm, currently under construction in Garfield, Kay and Noble counties. EGP began construction of the 298 megawatt facility in May on 60,000 acres near Billings, and the project is expected to be operational by the end of the year, according to an EGP press release. Under the deal [...]

Oklahoma State University Institute of Technology Department of Defense Defense Industry Adjustment (DIA) Program  HISTORY: Oklahoma State University Institute of Technology (OSUIT) Department of Defense (DoD) Programs has secured a second phase of its DoD grant to assist current and former DoD contractors that have approximately five percent of their gross revenue coming from DoD contracts over the last five years. The grant is designed to help with operational improvements and business portfolio diversification [...]

American Electric Power (NYSE: AEP) announced a major clean energy project, Wind Catcher Energy Connection, that will provide nearly 9 million megawatt-hours of new wind energy annually to its customers in Arkansas, Louisiana, Oklahoma and Texas. AEP’s utility subsidiaries Public Service Co. of Oklahoma (PSO) and Southwestern Electric Power Co. (SWEPCO) are asking utility regulators in those four states to approve plans to purchase a 2,000-megawatt (MW) wind farm currently under construction in the western [...]

Enid City Commission has approved an economic development agreement with ADM Milling. ADM Milling plans an investment of more than $32 million to modernize its Enid facilities — closing both 7,500 cwt milling units and building a 15,000 cwt milling unit. “A new milling unit will reduce emergency downtime and allow the mill to consistently operate at capacity, which will allow ADM to capture sales growth with new customers,” information provided to the commission states. [...]