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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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Duke Energy Wants to Build New 200 MW
Wind Farm

Already with a significant number of renewable energy installations in the Cowboy State, the company wants to develop a 200 megawatt wind farm northeast of Glenrock. Data collected at the site show an abundant and proven wind potential.

23Jul2009 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Fed Initiatives for Solar Push Include New Wyoming Office

Under the initiatives announced by Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar and U.S. Senator Harry Reid (D-NV), federal agencies will work with western leaders to designate tracts of U.S. public lands in the West as prime zones for utility-scale solar energy development.

1Jul2009 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Wind Rush Coming to Campbell County

California-based Third Planet Windpower is in the process of developing a 133-turbine wind farm on 14,000 acres in the southwest corner of Campbell County.

22Jun2009 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Wind Energy Update —
Follow the Money in the Cowboy State

Power Company of Wyoming said it wants to build 1,000 wind turbines, beginning just a few miles south of Rawlins, and export the power to the desert Southwest. At a projected cost of $4 billion to $6 billion, it would be the biggest porject yet for Wyoming’s wind power industry, and that makes sense, says Power Company President, Bill Miller.

8Jun2009 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Riverton’s U.S. Energy Corp. Launches
Geothermal Drilling Program

“Increasingly aggressive state and federal targets for renewable energy generation are resulting in a growing governmental commitment to geothermal energy development,” commented the company’s CEO, Keith Larsen.

1Jun2009 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Landowners Say “Slow Down” on Wind Energy

Dozens of rural landowners want to “curb enthusiasm for” and ultimately kill plans to plant wind turbines and string a green-field power line segment across the northern Laramie Range in Converse and Albany counties

12May2009 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Chevron Wind Farm Project Starts May 15th

Natrona County’s first wind power project has an aggressive timeline that is scheduled to begin next week and be generating power by the first of next year. A workforce of roughly 110 people at the peak of construction will work five days a week, from 7 a.m. to 10:30 p.m. to reach the goal.

7May2009 | admin | 5 comments | Continued
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Carbon County Wind Farm Could Generate 1,000+ Jobs

The construction and operation of two major wind farms in the south-central region of the state will create more than 1,000 jobs, according to the project’s owner - Power Company of Wyoming.

11Apr2009 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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