By C.F. David
Gideon Cowan, CEO of Worldwide Energy, found his past coming back to haunt him on April 1. Cowan, 60, was arrested by Cimarron County Sheriff’s Officers on a misdemeanor warrant from Major County, Oklahoma, (Fairview).
He was transferred to Fairview, by a Major County Sheriff’s Officer on April 2, and bonded out that evening on a $1,000 bond. He will face arraignment on May 1 on charges of driving under suspension and obstruction of an officer.
April 9, 2009 — To help Oklahoma companies, small businesses, entrepreneurs, and communities explore the many business and economic development opportunities involved with Oklahoma’s emerging wind industry, the Oklahoma Department of Commerce will hold Wind Commerce 2009: the Future is Now, June 23-24, at the Embassy Suites Norman Ok.
Dr. Shannon Ferrell, of OSU, talks about wind energy leases, to a small crowd in Boise City, last Wednesday evening.
by C.F. David
Dr. Shannon Ferrell, is an Agriculture Attorney at O.S. U.
Ferrell traveled to Boise City last Wednesday to answer questions about wind energy and the leases for that product.
Ferrell explained that power from a wind turbine is affected by: air density, swept area, and wind speed.
by C.F. David
According to documents obtained online by The Boise City News, from the office of The Oklahoma Secretary of State, in about mid-June, Worldwide Energy filed to intervene in Docket(s) to be heard by the Texas Public Commission.
According to the documents, Worldwide Energy is exploring ways to build transmission facilties in Texas that would allow interconnection with small power producers, specifically wind power.
Worldwide is, according to the documents, interested in connecting an Oklahoma Wind Farm, (as yet unbuilt), to the Electric Relialbilty Council of Texas, (ERCOT). Worldwide also wrote that they wished to accomplish this consistant with the Texas PUC, and without placing ERCOT under any more control of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, (FERC), than it already is.
Sterling,VA- Generation Energy, Inc. is pleased to announce that the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) issued a formal approval on February 20, 2009 for the siting of wind turbines within Generation Energy’s Keyes Wind Farm.
The Federal Aviation Administration’s approval has determined that none of the 28 proposed turbine locations will present a hazard to air navigation. In addition, a turbine lighting scheme acceptable to the FAA was provided, which will be used by Generation Energy. The project will still require acceptable arrangements for the sale of the energy in order to be built.
Oklahoma City- This is an Oklahoma Wind Investors press release in response to the story ran by The Boise City News on Feb. 18, about Oklahoma Wind Investors LLC., Worldwide Energy, Inc, and the principals behind those companies. This press release has been revised by The Boise City News. The original release had lexicon and phrases that implied that it had been written by The Boise City News. Kendall Parrish, an attorney for OWI was advised by e-mail of these revisions. The Boise City News will not have words placed in its figurative mouth. ED.
Oklahoma Wind Investors, Inc., plans to develop wind energy sites in the Oklahoma Panhandle and currently offers some very favorable terms to landowners who are interested in participating in the development of alternative energy sites. Worldwide Energy, Inc, is working with regulators and utilities to secure transmission services that will carry the energy generated by wind resources in the Panhandle to where the electricity is in demand.
by C.F. David
In looking at Oklahoma Wind Investors LLC, the Boise City News has found that Randle Taylor, whose business card names him as Executive V.P. and Marketing Director has a lawsuit pending against him in DuPage County, Illinois.
Taylor’s connection to Lev-Tek, an Illinois company was discovered during a routine background check by The Boise City News. Taylor’s name was connected to two companies at the same address, (apparently Taylor’s home), in Katy, Texas, a Houston suburb.
Taylor was listed as Director and President of E/Z Clean Aquariums and as a contact for Wrangler Energy.
A Google search on Wrangler Energy led to Lev-Tek, and a suit filed against Taylor and his wife Elena (Naydenova) Taylor.
The suit begins in September of 2008, shortly after Mrs. Taylor, who according to court documents had returned from Russia along with Louis Castronovo, the Executive V.P. and Chief Operating Officer of Lev-Tek.
The documents indicate that Mrs. Taylor and Mr. Castronovo had made the trip trying to sell technology to Russia. The project was aptly named, the “Russian Projects”.
This is the first of what is promised to be a number of press releases from Oklahoma Wind Investors.-Ed.
by Doris Lee McCoy
Director of Communications
Boise City, Oklahoma, February 9, 2009 – Oklahoma Wind Investors, LLC. (OWI) is in the intermediary steps of building and operating eco-friendly wind parks called the Keyes Project. Oklahoma Wind Investors is a division of World Wide Energy Inc. It is a dynamic multidimensional, clean energy company.
This project will help to reduce dependence on foreign oil, and it will help reduce carbon emissions in the U.S. The Keyes Transmission and Wind Parks Project are the first of a series of other projects to bring solutions to America’s energy crisis.
Gideon Cowan, CEO and President of OWI, LLC from Oklahoma City envisioned how Oklahoma with its strong wind power can share its natural resources with other parts of the country. Renewable resources has been a passion for Gideon for over 22 years. He sees these skills as a way to help the United States at a crucial time in our history.
by C.F. David
Karl Keller, of Generation Energy, speaks to a crowd about wind generation and the company’s vision for Cimarron County.
Generation Energy’s spokesperson, Karl Keller explained to a capacity crowd at the Cimarron County Show on Tuesday afternoon, how his company discovered Cimarron County. Keller explained that his company was a member of the Oklahoma Wind Power Initiative, and that Cimarron County Commissioner John Freeman had found them on the O.W.P.I. website and invited them to look at Cimarron County. They were excited by what they found and have applied to the Southwest Power Pool to sell electricity. “You only had one negative, no transmission lines,” Keller said. But he added that the problem of transmission lines wasn’t insurmountable.
Terry Hood, Tulsa’s Channel 6 anchor, threw a wide loop last October, and caught the wind. Hood, on a fact-finding report on wind energy, travelled as far south as Nolan County Texas and Sweetwater to look at the change wind energy had brought that small community. What she learned is mind-boggling. To see and hear first hand Google Cimarron County and look for Hood’s “Blowing in the Wind: Youtube video, and go from there.By talking to Nolan County rancher John Ussery and Sweetwater Mayor Greg Wortham,
by C.F. David
If and when wind energy makes its way to Cimarron County, there will of course, be changes, and one of them could be…a new Boise City Aiport.
City Manager Rod Avery said that the city had been approached by Generation Energy, (GEI) about a potential eventual construction of a new airport, since its present location affects their production area.
According to Avery should the decision to move the airport become a reality, the expense would be met by GEI.
Asked by The Boise City News where a new airport might be constructed so that it would be clear of the proposed wind farm(s), Avery replied that it was his understanding that land might be available south of Boise City.
What: REVOLUTION-Oklahoma Wind Energy Conference
When: December 2-3, 2008
Where: Cox Convention Center, Oklahoma City
More information: visit www.OKWindRevolution.com or call 800-203-5494. Oklahoma’s first wind energy conference, REVOLUTION, features nationally-recognized wind experts, including T. Boone Pickens, architect of the Pickens Plan; and Mark Tercek, CEO of The Nature Conservancy, exhibits, and sessions about economic development, infrastructure needs, landowner issues, and wildlife.
Sponsored by Oklahoma’s secretaries of Energy and Environment in conjunction with the Oklahoma Department of Commerce, REVOLUTION topics include the following:
Registration: $60
Register to attend on line or call 800-203-5494.
For more information, visit www.OKWindRevolution.com.
by Gus Blackwell, Rep.-61
Speaker Pro-Tempore
Two weeks ago the Energy Committee had an interim study on transmission lines. This was a study that I authored to look at options in building transmission lines in Oklahoma. The main problem that we were studying was how to get auxiliary transmissions lines to the substation in Guymon once the Extra High Voltage (EHV) transmission line was built.
From
Jack L. Perkins
Chief Executive Officer, TRI-County Electric
Dear Editor,
Wind generation is in the news in our area frequently. Hardly a day goes by that I don’t hear at least one question about it myself. I would like to publicly answer a few of the more common questions we receive about wind generation. In addition, I make myself available to anyone whose question is not answered here. Our door is always open for our members at Tri-County Electric.
by Alley Jackson
There are new ideas for generating energy. One is wind energy. Yarbrough School has decided to power the whole school with a windmill. They have installed a small wind system to cut down electricity costs. The wind system is on the corner of the school grounds and it is to produce 1/3 to ½ of the school electricity needs.
P.S. You can go to The Wind Easement Workgroups Website at http://www.windustry.org for more details on Wind Easements. We at The Boise City News2 thank them for the information.-Ed.
Great Plains Windustry Project
2105 1st Avenue South, Minneapolis MN 55404
toll free: 800-946-3640 phone: 612-870-3461 fax: 612-813-5612
e-mail: info@windustry.org
The Wind Easement Workgroup has developed a list of recommended best practices and public policies for wind developers, states, and local governments seeking to facilitate orderly and sustainable wind energy development. These policies and practices are designed to protect landowners, enhance economic development opportunities in wind energy, and broaden access to wind energy market information, without place undue regulation and constraints on the wind industry. These recommendations focus on landowner issues related to land leases and easements and wind energy development in general. More detailed recommendations for wind energy easement and lease contracts are included in the Wind Energy Easement and Lease Guidelines. This document includes issues that could be translated into public policy or best practices guidelines. Our recommendations are based on wind energy laws in South Dakota, experiences in other industries, and collective experiences with wind energy/ landowner issues among the Workgroup participants.
However, with modern technology, the small wind charger has become a giant in both stature and power production. A visit to one website
(http://www2.ocgi.okstate.edu/website/owpi2/viewer.htm)
will illustrate the wind resources of Northwest Oklahoma and in particular, North Central and Western Cimarron County. The potential is here, what we need are power transmission lines.
by Robert White
Robert White is a local landowner who has taken up research on wind power and it’s possibilities and pitfalls. You may contact Robert at 544-3736- Ed.
There’s Good and Bad in Power from the Wind.
The primary problem with wind power is that it is not dispatchable, meaning that power cannot be produced at all times when it is needed because the wind stops blowing, or blows too hard. The electric grid has to be balanced so that supply put into the grid by the utility equals demand taken out of the grid by customers. When power from a wind turbine stops flowing into the grid, some other kind of generating source has to input that loss of capacity back into the grid. Usually this means that a fossil fuel power plant has to ramp up to take over the loss of power from the wind turbine. In some instances a local dispatchable power source has to be constructed near the wind farm to balance the grid when the wind farm goes off line.
