Sundance, the first of three wind projects comprising the facility in Oklahoma — including a behemoth just shy of 1 GW — is now operational. AEP subsidiaries Southwestern Electric Power Company (SWEPCO) and Public Service Company of Oklahoma now look to the next two projects in the wind facility, and the emissions reduction goals they are intended to build toward.

In a new web conference series on solar development hosted by Kimley-Horn yesterday afternoon, representatives from community solar developer Nexamp and utility scale solar developer Invenergy met to discuss the continuing rise of the solar industry and the growing number of challenges facing developers.