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Dave Johnston power plant, a large coal-fired generating station at Glenrock, is owned by PacifiCorp. Outdoor recreation opportunities are plentiful in the area surrounding Glenrock, as the Laramie Mountains, Medicine Bow National Forest, and the Platte River are nearby.
List of power stations in Wyoming. Sources of Wyoming electricity generation: full-year 2022 [1] Coal (71.1%) Wind (22.1%) Natural Gas (4.3%) Hydroelectric (1.9%) Solar (0.5%) This is a list of electricity-generating power stations in the U.S. state of Wyoming, sorted by type and name. In 2021, Wyoming had a total summer capacity of 10,096 MW ...
The Wyoming Rolling Hills Wind farm is located near Glenrock in Converse county and has 66 turbines with a total nameplate capacity of 99 megawatts. It is built on a former coal strip mine, and is owned by PacifiCorp, a subsidiary of MidAmerican Energy Holdings. [1][2] The Iowa wind farm is near Massena, Iowa (41°13′03″N 94°45′14″W).
September 6, 2024 at 11:59 PM. CHEYENNE — Of the 54 operational nuclear power plants in the United States, only three have become operational since 1997. In June, a new plant broke ground near ...
A Wyoming coal mine that supplies fuel to a power plant that will be converted to burn gas plans to lay off 19 workers next month, the latest of thousands of jobs lost in the beleaguered U.S. coal ...
By 2006, the only active uranium mine in Wyoming was the Smith Ranch-Highland in-situ leaching operation in the Powder River Basin, owned by Power Resources, Inc., a subsidiary of Cameco. The mine produced 907 tonnes of yellowcake (uranium oxide concentrate, U 3 O 8) in 2006, making it the leading uranium producer in the United States. [12]
In 2019, Wyoming had wind powered electricity generating capacity of 1,589 MW, which produced 9.85% of its electric generation, with an additional 3,753 MW under construction. However, the wind generation in that year was Wyoming's third-lowest in the 2010s. [1] By 2020, wind capacity increased to 2738 MW [2] and 8448 gigawatt-hours of ...
Laramie River Station. / 42.10722°N 104.88722°W / 42.10722; -104.88722. Laramie River Station is a major coal-fired power plant, located in Platte County. It is operated by Basin Electric Power Cooperative and owned jointly by several of its member cooperatives. It is the second largest coal-fired power plant in Wyoming by capacity. [3]