Wind Energy

CASPER, Wyo. (AP) — The number of wind turbines completed in Wyoming is lagging the number of permits issued by state regulators to build them.
Todd Parfitt of the state’s Industrial Siting Division says financial concerns, tax uncertainty, legal and environmental issu…

GREEN RIVER, Wyo. (AP) — The Sweetwater County Commission has approved a temporary halt to applications for commercial wind farms.
The county has not met state standards for wind farm zoning.

CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — Gov. Matt Mead says he’s giving up hope that the Wyoming Legislature will change how the state taxes wind energy projects this year.
Wyoming in January began imposing a $1 per megawatt hour tax on wind energy production...

Gov. Matt Mead said he won’t stop pushing for change in how Wyoming taxes wind energy projects despite a chilly reception to his proposals from some state legislators.
Wyoming next month will begin imposing a $1 per megawatt hour tax on wind energy production...

ROCK SPRINGS, Wyo. (AP) — A company that wants to build a wind farm south of Rock Springs says the project would create 200 jobs during construction and lead to 25 long-term jobs once it starts operations.
EnXco (en-EX’-koh) presented the economic benefits of the proposal during…

CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — The decision by the federal government to give priority review to three Wyoming wind generation projects and two transmission line projects bodes well for the state’s burgeoning renewable energy industry.
Last week, the Bureau of Land Management announced i…

CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — A Jackson Hole company wants to lease land from Cheyenne to build a 300-megawatt, $750 million wind farm.

RAWLINS, Wyo. (AP) — Federal and state officials held a closed meeting recently with private landowners about the Chokecherry Sierra Madre wind farm project south of Rawlins.
Bureau of Land Management archaeologist Pat Walker says the meeting last week in Rawlins was not open to the public in o…