Wind Energy

The Casper Star-Tribune reports the Joint Revenue Committee talked to Montana lawmakers Monday about their state’s electricity taxes.

New Albany County Commissioner Pete Gosar admitted it’s been a busy first couple of months on the job in 2019.

Carbon and Albany counties will receive about $4.8 million during construction of the Ekola Flats project.

The projects were presented to the Carbon County Commission this week by a representative of Intermountain Wind LLC.

Wyoming also sees wind flow generally different than that of the western plains, where many of Colorado's existing farms are built.

All interveners except a sheep ranch have withdrawn from the case.

Road work for the Chokecherry and Sierra Madre wind farm began last year.

A company has pushed back by a year its plans to apply for a state permit to build a large wind farm in Carbon County.