Video & Transcript Research : 'wind resources'
Page 29 of 500
MN
Minnesota 2025 1st Special Session
House Energy Finance and Policy Committee 2/27/25
Energy Finance and Policy
Transcript Highlights:
- on environment and natural resources on environment and natural resources representative<00:01:32.920
- so um it didn't address um the wind so um it didn't address um the wind pieces<00:04:06.959>
- you 20 grand if I can bury this wind you 20 grand if I can bury this wind blade<00:10:54.200>
- need to fully develop its solar and wind need to fully develop its solar and wind recycling<00:15
- <00:15:26.279>
materials recycling of solar and wind materials recycling of solar and wind
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
Committee on Energy, Utilities, Environment and Climate - 02/23/26
Energy, Utilities, Environment, and Climate
Transcript Highlights:
- run the division of energy resources run the division of energy resources which<00:02:38.319>
- which tends to be cheaper, and by wind which tends to be cheaper, and by wind and<00:09:56.800><
- wind and solar that were cut back. wind and solar that were cut back.
- The first being kind of rethinking how we do our resource adequacy metrics and resource planning.
- The first being kind of rethinking how we do our resource adequacy metrics and resource planning.
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
House Energy Finance and Policy Committee 2/25/25
Energy Finance and Policy
Transcript Highlights:
- The more you rely on wind, solar, and battery storage and you get away from the thermal resources that
- , which similarly increases the availability of low-cost energy from resources like wind generation.
- , which similarly increases the availability of low-cost energy from resources like wind generation.
- <00:58:26.920>
like <00:58:27.039>wind energy from resources like wind energy from - resources like wind generation<00:58:28.720>
finally <00:58:29.119>We <00:58:29.240>
MN
Minnesota 2025 1st Special Session
Expanding Nuclear Energy in Minnesota – Senator Nick Frentz Mar 10th, 2025
Minnesota Senate Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- It comes basically from wind in the same way solar does.
- They're intermittent resources; the sun doesn't always shine and the wind doesn't always blow, so the
- of 100% of how we generate energy wind of 100% of how we generate energy wind is<00:02:46.159>
- resources the sun doesn't intermittent resources the sun doesn't always<00:03:02.000>
shine <00- > always shine and the wind doesn't always shine and the wind doesn't doesn't<00:03:04.080>
always - resources the sun doesn't intermittent resources the sun doesn't always<00:03:02.000>
US
US Federal 2025-2026 Regular Session
Hearings to examine improving the Federal environmental review and permitting processes. Feb 19th, 2025 at 09:15 am
Environment and Public Works Committee
Transcript Highlights:
- Nor do the industries that support offshore wind, the Louisiana shipyards.
- One project is a starboard wind project.
- Booker, I wanted to ask you about offshore wind.
- we're seeing of offshore wind projects in the last couple of years.
- On the East Coast and the West Coast, offshore wind has made sense.
Keywords:
environmental review, permitting process, infrastructure, bipartisan legislation, economic growth, Nucor, West Virginia
Summary:
The meeting focused on critical discussions surrounding the need for modernizing the federal environmental review and permitting processes. Witnesses from various sectors, including Nucor, provided testimony on the delays and costs associated with current regulations, emphasizing the impact on infrastructure and economic growth. Major projects in West Virginia, such as the Corridor H and Coalfield Expressways, were highlighted as examples of initiatives stalled by excessive permitting hurdles, prompting calls for bipartisan legislation to streamline these processes while maintaining environmental protections. The committee expressed a commitment to address these issues immediately, highlighting the urgency to enhance efficiency in permitting to facilitate economic development.
MN
Transcript Highlights:
- Most wind energy companies opposed to this will cite wind energy as an economic opportunity for communities
- I was working with people on the Freeborn Wind project.
- Now, the problem is with wind, wind.
- It's not a typical setback from a residence for a wind project.
- Wind turbines create real turbulence behind their blades.
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
House Energy Finance and Policy Committee 4/3/25
Energy Finance and Policy
Transcript Highlights:
- right now are actually wind and solar. right now are actually wind and solar.
- those resources here. those resources here.
- positive such as wind. It has its place. positive such as wind. It has its place.
- <00:54:47.040>
wind boundary of one mile between wind wind boundary of one mile between wind - expertise to deal with a wind project. expertise to deal with a wind project.
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
House Energy Finance and Policy Committee 3/5/26
Energy Finance and Policy
Transcript Highlights:
- resources on the grid.
- And that wind and solar generation relies upon what we call inverter-based technologies, and these resources
- those resources with.
- for those retiring resources resources for those retiring resources are<01:01:34.079>
not <01:01 - <01:02:09.760>
It replacing those resources with. It replacing those resources with.
TX
Texas 89th Regular
Economic DevelopmentNote: This video has been edited to include the opening roll call. Video footage begins at 00m:32s. Apr 7th, 2025
Economic Development
Transcript Highlights:
- Members, are there any questions for these resources? Um, here we go.
- wind and solar.
- and solar actually wind up passing?
- Cruz here as a resource. Good afternoon.
- We do have a resource witness from TWC available. Thank you.
Keywords:
hotel occupancy tax, municipal revenue, tax code, local government funding, Texas legislation, county taxation, economic development, hotel industry, local government, counties, taxation, tourism, workforce development, youth programs, employment, education, technical training, health physics, higher education, nuclear energy
Summary:
The Senate Economic Development Committee met to hear a series of bills and informational primers, with several resource witnesses from the Governor’s Office, the Texas Workforce Commission, and the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board. The chair opened by noting the death of Senator King’s son and asking members to keep the family in their prayers. Most bills were laid out and left pending subject to the call of the chair after brief author presentations and public testimony.
The committee heard several local hotel occupancy tax bills: SB 1553 for Kerr County, SB 1086 for Childress County, SB 1087 for Mason County, and SB 913 for Alpine. Supporters, including the Texas Hotel and Lodging Association and local officials, said the measures would allow counties or the city to use hotel tax revenue for tourism-related projects and local development. The committee also heard SB 1534, which would direct a study on health physics education and workforce needs in Texas; resource witnesses from TWC and THECB testified on the bill. All of these measures were left pending.
A major portion of the hearing focused on SB 1754, which would prohibit local tax abatements for renewable energy facilities selling power at wholesale, with an exception for certain battery storage tied to dispatchable generation. The bill drew strong support from witnesses who argued counties should not subsidize wind and solar projects that can harm neighboring landowners and that renewables already receive substantial federal support. Opponents from the solar and storage industry argued the bill would remove a voluntary local economic development tool, raise power prices, and discourage investment. Senators also debated landowner impacts, grid reliability, and whether the bill was the right policy tool; the bill was left pending.
The committee also heard SB 2322, a committee substitute related to the Jobs, Energy, Technology, and Innovation Act, which would exempt electric generation facilities from the program’s compelling-factor test so they can qualify for school tax limitation agreements. Supporters said the change would correct an unintended barrier for dispatchable generation, while Senator Johnson argued it would weaken the program’s purpose by subsidizing projects that would locate in Texas anyway. SB 1718 would add the NRA annual meeting to the major events reimbursement program; the NRA supported it, while gun violence prevention advocates opposed using state incentives for the organization. SB 2004 would add the Arlington Grand Prix to the major events program, and SB 2448 would create a rural workforce development grant program; both drew supportive testimony and were left pending. The committee also heard SB 1143, a substitute bill aimed at improving transparency and coordination in programs serving opportunity youth ages 14 to 24, with witnesses supporting better reporting and workforce alignment. At the end of the meeting, Senator Johnson moved that the committee stand in recess subject to the call of the chair.
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
House Energy Finance and Policy Committee 2/18/25
Energy Finance and Policy
Transcript Highlights:
- If we could, for example, in Minnesota, where our best solar and wind resources are, you know, our utilities
- in and we're expecting kind of a downgrade in 45 minutes, which that wind resource will be there, but
- in and we're expecting kind of a downgrade in 45 minutes, which that wind resource will be there, but
- in and we're expecting kind of a downgrade in 45 minutes, which that wind resource will be there, but
- wind resource<01:16:11.600>
will <01:16:11.800>be <01:16:12.000>there <01:16:12.159
Bills:
HF75
Keywords:
HF75, earned incentive release credit, earned incentive credits, revocation, revocable credits, corrections, Minnesota Department of Corrections, prison discipline, incarcerated persons, inmate misconduct, facility rules, sentence reduction, supervised release, Minnesota Rehabilitation and Reinvestment Act, public safety, rehabilitation, prison credits, executed sentence, 1183, house
TX
Transcript Highlights:
- for wind and solar.
- and solar actually wind up passing?
- Wind and solar are still coming.
- Chair calls up Adriana Cruz, a resource witness.
- Cruz here as a resource. Good afternoon. Ms. Cruz here as a resource.
Keywords:
hotel occupancy tax, municipal revenue, tax code, local government funding, Texas legislation, county taxation, economic development, hotel industry, local government, counties, taxation, tourism, workforce development, youth programs, employment, education, technical training, health physics, higher education, nuclear energy
Summary:
The committee heard a series of bills, mostly related to economic development, tax incentives, and workforce programs. Senate Bill 1534 would direct a study by the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board and the Texas Workforce Commission on health physics education and workforce needs; resource witnesses from the Workforce Commission and Coordinating Board testified, and the bill was left pending. Senate Bill 1553 would authorize Kerr County to impose a hotel occupancy tax for tourism-related uses, and Senate Bills 1086 and 1087 would authorize similar county hotel taxes for Children’s County and Mason County; all three bills received supportive testimony and were left pending. The committee also heard Senate Bill 1754, which would prohibit county and local tax abatements for renewable energy facilities selling power wholesale, with testimony sharply divided between landowners and policy groups opposing renewable subsidies and industry representatives and some senators arguing the bill would harm clean energy investment and local decision-making; the bill was left pending. The committee then heard Senate Bill 2322, which would exempt dispatchable electric generation facilities from the JEDI program’s compelling-factor test so they could qualify for school district tax incentives; testimony was mixed, and the bill was left pending.
Later, the committee heard Senate Bill 1718, which would add the NRA annual meeting to the state’s major events reimbursement program. The bill’s sponsor and NRA representatives argued the event brings substantial tourism and economic activity, while opponents said it would use taxpayer funds to subsidize an organization that opposes gun safety measures; the bill was left pending. Senate Bill 2004 would add the Arlington Grand Prix to the major events reimbursement program, with the committee substitute exempting it from the usual competitive site-selection requirement because of timing; testimony from the event organizers and Arlington tourism officials was supportive, and the bill was left pending. Senate Bill 2448 would create a rural workforce development grant program at the Texas Workforce Commission to support college-and-career readiness and technical assistance in rural communities; witnesses from Texas 2036, Collegiate Edgination, and a rural school district supported it, and it was left pending. Finally, Senate Bill 913 would repeal a special requirement that Alpine dedicate at least 50% of its hotel occupancy tax to advertising and promotion, and Senate Bill 1143 would require more coordination and reporting for youth workforce programs serving disconnected young Texans; both bills received supportive testimony and were left pending. At the end of the hearing, Senator Johnson moved that the committee stand in recess, subject to the call of the chair.
MN
Transcript Highlights:
- Similarly, the objective of the wind Similarly, the objective of the wind energy<00:59:09.839>
- such as a wind charger, windmill, or wind turbine.
- windmill, or wind turbine. windmill, or wind turbine.
- Over the range, wind 1990 to 2020.
- <01:13:58.480>
The roughly $1.3 million for wind. The roughly $1.3 million for wind.
TX
Transcript Highlights:
- I am here as a resource witness on the bill. Here we go.
- both wind and solar.
- What percentage that have to do with wind and solar actually wind up passing?
- The wind and solar are still coming.
- Cruz here as a resource. Good afternoon.
Keywords:
hotel occupancy tax, municipal revenue, tax code, local government funding, Texas legislation, county taxation, economic development, hotel industry, local government, counties, taxation, tourism, workforce development, youth programs, employment, education, technical training, health physics, higher education, nuclear energy
NH
New Hampshire 2025 Regular Session
House Science, Technology and Energy (06/10/2025)
Science, Technology and Energy
Transcript Highlights:
- <00:49:15.200>
and question of what resources and question of what resources and infrastructure - I think that begs the resources.
- <00:49:44.720>
and answer the question what resources and answer the question what resources - know the timelines for any offshore wind know the timelines for any offshore wind resources<00:59
- So, that's sort of a resources were.
FL
Transcript Highlights:
- by wind-blown vegetation and debris.
- We need to, that changes our resource mix.
- We had to go outside the SE in Milton due to the resource strain, but we try to go to our own resources
- prior to going to the SE. ...resource strain, but we try to go to our own resources prior to going to
- So once we get the resources to our staging site after they all clear from the storm, we move our resources
Summary:
The committee met to hear invited presentations on storm recovery and storm protection from the Florida Public Service Commission, Florida Power & Light, Duke Energy, Tampa Electric, Chesapeake Utilities, and the Office of Public Counsel. The PSC reviewed the history of storm restoration financing and utility hardening efforts after major storms such as Hurricane Andrew, the 2004-05 hurricane seasons, Irma, and Michael, explaining storm reserve funds, storm recovery bonds, and the current three-year storm protection plan process. The commission’s role in approving plans and later reviewing prudence of actual costs was emphasized, along with the types of work included in the plans such as vegetation management, pole replacement, undergrounding, feeder hardening, and substation flood protection.
The utilities described their own storm-hardening investments and recent storm performance. FPL said it has spent about $4.9 billion on storm protection and recovery-related efforts, highlighted improved restoration times during Helene and Milton, and said it is expanding undergrounding, feeder hardening, and smart-grid technology. Duke Energy reported more than 40,000 hardened poles and structures since 2021, major gains from self-healing grid technology, and faster restoration during recent storms. Tampa Electric described a roughly $200 million annual storm protection effort, including vegetation management, undergrounding, substation hardening, and new storm surge protections, and Chesapeake Utilities discussed its smaller-scale hardening program, vegetation work, pole replacement, and rapid restoration after Helene in Nassau County.
Committee members asked about how utilities prioritize neighborhoods for lateral hardening, whether maps of planned projects could be shared, how much each utility has spent on undergrounding and hardening, and how reliability comparisons are normalized against the national average. Public Counsel Walt Trierweiler argued that storm recovery and hardening costs fall too heavily on investor-owned utility customers, said the current framework lacks a meaningful cost-benefit or prudence check at the planning stage, and urged broader sharing of storm costs because the benefits extend to the whole state. Senators also discussed whether the commission can review the reasonableness of approved programs and whether future reports or recommendations from Public Counsel would be helpful. No votes or formal actions were taken.
MN
Minnesota 2025 1st Special Session
The Debate Around Expanding Nuclear Energy in MN / Supporting Sustainable Aviation Fuel Production Mar 9th, 2025
Minnesota Senate Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- You know, I'm still fine with wind. I'm fine with solar.
- You know, I'm still fine with wind. I'm fine with solar.
- I'm still fine with wind. I'm fine with solar.
- of 100% of how we generate energy wind of 100% of how we generate energy wind is<00:15:57.720>
- resources: the sun doesn't always shine, and the wind doesn't always blow.
MN
Minnesota 2025 1st Special Session
House Energy Finance and Policy Committee 3/6/25
Energy Finance and Policy
Transcript Highlights:
- The other thing that's different, you know, we use a half mile for solar, but for wind, wind is way up
- <00:12:58.440>
but <00:12:58.560>wind mile for solar but or for wind but wind mile - for solar but or for wind but wind is<00:12:58.920>
way <00:12:59.399>by <00:12:59.560>< - <00:13:29.120>
Wind <00:13:29.199>Mill farther than uh with the Wind Wind Mill farther - goals the division of energy resources goals the division of energy resources at<00:48:23.319>
ND
North Dakota 2025-2026 Regular Session
Energy Development and Transmission Committee Jul 22nd, 2026
Transcript Highlights:
- Mitigation Resources I talked about.
- The North Dakota wind turbines were zero.
- If there's excess wind on the system, they take that wind energy and consume that.
- You're buying some wind farms, I believe two now, is that correct? Two wind farms in the purchase?
- gas generation, purchase the wind.
Summary:
The committee met at the Coteau Freedom Mine in Mercer County, approved the June 2 minutes, and heard an overview of the mine from Coteau Properties president Andrew Hawbaker. He described the Freedom Mine as the largest lignite mine in the United States, supplying coal to Dakota Gasification, Antelope Valley Station, and Leland Olds Station. He emphasized the mine’s scale, safety record, reclamation work, workforce needs, community involvement, and economic impact, including payroll, taxes, royalties, scholarships, and local hiring. Members asked about how long land stays in production, how quickly it returns to agriculture after reclamation, labor shortages, and how mining affects groundwater and water wells. Hawbaker said most tracts are mined for about three to five years, reclamation is coordinated with landowners, and the company continues to struggle to find electricians, welders, mechanics, operators, and engineers.
The committee then heard from Public Service Commission Chairman Randy Christman on coal mining reclamation and permitting. He reviewed North Dakota’s coal mining history, the state’s reclamation laws, federal Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act primacy, bonding, permit renewals and revisions, prohibited mining areas, inspection and enforcement, and contemporaneous reclamation requirements. Christman stressed that North Dakota’s program is professional and thorough, with frequent inspections, financial assurance, and a 10-year revegetation monitoring period before bond release. He also discussed federal coal ownership issues that can delay mine plans, the treatment of prime farmland, and how reclamation differs for wind and pipelines. In response to questions, he said one challenge is sometimes releasing land too soon before long-term compaction issues are fully understood, and he noted that data centers do not currently have a comparable reclamation model because they typically own the land.
In the afternoon, the committee received an update from Lignite Energy Council president Jonathan Fortner on the lignite industry. He said North Dakota’s lignite sector supports five commercial power plants, four mines, about 12,000 direct and indirect jobs, and more than $5.5 billion in economic activity, while helping keep the state’s electricity rates among the lowest in the nation. Fortner reviewed coal severance and conversion tax revenues, the lignite research fund, federal regulatory rollbacks, carbon capture policy, and the industry’s legal costs fighting federal rules. He also highlighted a study on large-load development, saying new data centers and critical mineral processing facilities could create major local tax revenue and help justify new baseload generation. Members asked whether new gas pipelines would crowd out coal plant development and whether the economic study included jobs and broader local impacts; Fortner said the industry sees room for both and that the study did include construction, operations, jobs, and tax effects.
NM
New Mexico 2025 Regular Session
House - Energy, Environment and Natural Resources Jan 28th, 2025
House Energy, Environment & Natural Resources
Transcript Highlights:
- I'm the committee assistant for House Energy and Natural Resources.
- We have great wind.
- Wyoming has some of the best wind resources in the country, located not as... as well as New Mexico to
- It talks about the potential of wind and solar in New Mexico.
- New Mexico is blessed; we're blessed with the sun and the wind.
FL
Florida 2025 Regular Session
Regulated Industries Mar 4th, 2025
Transcript Highlights:
- by wind blew vegetation and debris.
- We need to change is our resource mix.
- I mentioned on the resources from other utilities as far as within do we have the resources and the Carolinas
- But we try to go to our own resources prior going to see.
- So once we get the resources are stating site after the author from the storm, the big moving resources