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Tech Watch — Battery Storage of Renewables Looks Promising

“We have proved that this technology can perform the functions of storage that we were looking for to help us manage the variability of wind energy on our operating system,” said Xcel’s Frank Novachek in reference to the
one-megawatt battery system to store wind energy and transmit it to the grid when needed.

12Aug2010 | admin | 1 comment | Continued
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Development of Clean Coal Technologies Goal of UW’s
Call for Proposals

The 2010 Wyoming Clean Coal Technologies was created by the Wyoming State Legislature to stimulate research and development in the area of low-emissions coal technology. Commercially successful deployment is the ultimate goal of this program.

6Aug2010 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Wind Power Project Offers Sage Grouse Conservation Plan

The Power Company of Wyoming wants to build a 1,000-turbine wind farm on part of a 486-square-mile cattle ranch near Rawlins. To get project approval, the company must address concerns related to the sage grouse. More than half of the project site overlaps with “core” habitat area designated by the state for special protection.

20Apr2010 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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250-Megawatt Interconnection in Wyoming Sought by Wind Energy America

The company is seeking the interconnection from Black Hills Power, Inc., for the project in Weston County, which should be capable of generating 600 million kilowatt units of power each year, or emough equivalent electricty of roughly 60,000 homes.

5Mar2010 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Start Button Pushed on Natrona County Wind Farm

The 880-acre site formerly belonged to the Texaco Casper refinery. Signal Wind Energy, LLC is general contractor on the project, which incorporates 11 1.5 megawatt GE wind turbines said to produce enough power to supply 4,400 average size homes.

15Dec2009 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Duke Energy Gets $22 Million Grant for
Energy Storage Project

The batteries at the company’s Energy’s Notrees Windpower Project in Ector and Winkler counties, Texas, will store excess wind energy and discharge it whenever demand for electricity is highest. If all goes well, the application could be expanded to other states with significant wind resources like Wyoming.

1Dec2009 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Silver Sage Windpower Project Operational —
Two Months Ahead of Schedule

Cheyenne Light Fuel & Power, a utility subsidiary of Black Hills Corp., and Colorado-based Platte River Power Authority are buying the renewable energy generated by Duke Energy at its Silver Sage Project.

11Nov2009 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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RES Americas Commissions Two Wyoming Wind Projects

The Broomfield, Colorado-based wind developer announced the start-up of the High Plains and McFadden Ridge I projects, located in Albany and Carbon Counties, respectively. Combined, they will bring online more than 127 megawatts of renewable resource capability to PacifiCorp.

7Oct2009 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Duke Energy Expands Its Wind Power Domination

The North Carolina-based power giant continues to build the biggest share of wind energy generation in Wyoming with its announcement of the Top of the World project in Converse County. By the end of 2010, it will be owner/operator of approximately 370 MW of wind power in the state.

31Aug2009 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Dunlap Ranch Wind Project Gets Conditional Approval

The Planning Commission has granted a conditional-use permit to PacifiCorp for its proposed wind farm project near Medicine Bow.

27Aug2009 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Horizon Wind Project Now on Hold Indefinitely

Project manager Nate Sandvig said last week that his company has decided not to submit a permit application to the Wyoming Industrial Siting Council based on the state’s recent decision not to allow wind energy development in key sage grouse habitats. “There are too many unknowns,” Sandvig said.

6Aug2009 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Construction Underway on McFadden Ridge
Wind Project

The wind farm will be Rocky Mountain Power’s seventh project brought into service in Wyoming within the past two years. McFadden Ridge I is located near the company’s High Plains wind project, which also is under construction and is scheduled for completion in this autumn.

3Aug2009 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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