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Royalty Rate for Energy Leasing on Public Lands May Go Up

“We don’t see any reason why the state shouldn’t be getting what private landowners can get. We’ve heard of private landowners getting more than 20 percent. So, why should we, the people of Wyoming, settle for less?,” asks Dan Neal, executive director of the Equality State Policy Center.

28Jun2011 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Wyoming Legislators Support Plans for Lake DeSmet Plant

Members of the Joint Minerals, Business and Economic Development Interim Committee decided Tuesday to develop legislation to contribute toward the $5 million cost of a study to help with facility design.

23Jun2011 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Rocky Mountain Power Rate Increase Would Fund
Out-Of-State Improvements

Critics of the utility’s multimillion-dollar rate hike often claim that the company is unfairly charging Wyoming rate payers for infrastructure outside the state or for things such as wind farm projects that won’t benefit customers in the state.

6Jun2011 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Delivering Wyoming Wind Energy to the West — The TransWest Express Transmission Project

Wyoming Energy News is expanding our coverage of the critical transmission sector with an in depth look at specific projects, beginning with the TransWest Express (TWE), a proposed 725-mile high-voltage, direct current transmission line that will deliver power to California, Arizona and Nevada.

14May2011 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Western Utilities Aim For Increased Efficiency

Can a push to reduce electricity usage reduce the need for new power plants in the Rockies despite the region’s population growth? Colorado illustrates changed thinking where utilities in recent years have started tackling energy efficiency with as much vigor as they once reserved for building new power plants.

5May2011 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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EPRI Does the Math on Total Smart Grid Cost
(and it’s a lot)

The price tag for a fully functional smart grid in the U.S. could run from $338 billion to $476 billion, the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) says in a new report. Wow! But the bonus is that the ROI in terms of benefits could be between $1.3 trillion and $2 trillion.

19Apr2011 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Rocky Mountain Power Defends Rate Hike

RMP is seeking an overall rate hike of 17.3 percent, in which residential customers would see a 21.5 percent increase, small commercial companies 19.5 percent, and large commercial users 9.4 percent. It follows a 5.1 percent hike last July, and another 1.9 percent in February.

10Apr2011 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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RECS Program: Shaping the Future of
Carbon Sequestration

In order to rapidly advance the knowledge base and encourage professional development, the Research Experience in Carbon Sequestration (RECS) was established as the world’s first multidisciplinary intensive CCS summer program.

30Mar2011 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Interior to Allow Expanded Coal Production in
Powder River Basin

“There’s no place in the country that captures this all-of-the-above approach quite like Wyoming,” Salazar told reporters on a conference call, noting oil-and-gas development in the state as well as its major coal production.

23Mar2011 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Multi-State Power Line Project to Test Policies
on Grouse, ‘Wild Lands’

Backers of the proposed TransWest Express electricity transmission project are trying to accomplish something that has stymied developers in recent years: build a power line that crosses multiple state boundaries and bisects hundreds of miles of federal and private property.

15Mar2011 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Unemployment Rate in Wyoming Continues to Drop

The Wyoming Department of Employment’s Research and Planning section reported today that the state’s seasonally adjusted unemployment rate decreased .2 percent from November to December, 2010. Natural resources and mining (including oil and gas) posted the largest job gains (3,200 jobs, or 13.1 percent), the section reports.

25Jan2011 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Comments Sought on Extra-High-Voltage
Power Line

The 600-kilovolt, direct-current line would transmit up to 3,000 megawatts per year of electricity from planned renewable energy facilities in south-central Wyoming to southern Nevada to help meet anticipated increased demand in the Southwest.

4Jan2011 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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In-Depth — Supreme Court Hearing of GHG Case Could Have Far-Reaching Consequences

If the Court permits this kind of lawsuit, utilities could face significant future liability for climate change-related damages and a proliferation of similar nuisance suits across the country.

24Dec2010 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Report Says New EPA Rules Will Erode
Power Grid Reliability

Four federal environmental regulations to improve water and air quality could by 2018 chop by nearly half the amount of projected reserve energy available to the US power grid, according to the NERC report.

27Oct2010 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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