Topic: Wyoming

Solar wells displacing windmills on Western range

AP News - 56 days ago
Western ranchers in some remote areas replace iconic windmills with solar-powered water pumpsThe pump installer toppled the old windmill in about an hour, first climbing up the wobbly 27-foot tower to stop the broken mill's whirling blade and then pulling the underground ...
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Windy Wyoming debates excise tax for wind energy

AP News - 206 days ago
Wyoming debates first-of-its-kind excise tax on wind energy production on its plains, plateausA proposal in Wyoming to impose the nation's first state excise tax on wind energy production is generating debate over how the state should handle the arrival of massive wind ...
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Wyoming lawmakers recommend new wind regulations

AP News - 312 days ago
Wyo. lawmakers recommend minimum county wind regulations, expanding Industrial Siting ActA Wyoming legislative task force has recommended tightening wind development standards at the county and state level to help establish a regulatory structure for companies pursuing wind farms here. The Legislature created ...
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2 Duke Energy wind projects now running

AP News - 341 days ago
Duke Energy says wind projects in Pennsylvania, Wyoming now onlinePower company Duke Energy said Thursday that wind power projects in Wyoming and Pennsylvania are now up and running. Duke's 70-megawatt project about 95 miles east of Pittsburgh is producing electricity for Akron, ...
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Wind farm debate splits private property concerns

AP News - 380 days ago
Wyoming wind farm debate tests Western private property valuesRichard Grant Jr.'s family has ranched Wyoming's rugged granite-and-grass hills for generations, their 123-year-old ranch dotted with reminders of their long history — an historic schoolhouse, an old red barn and the parcels of ...
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Sage grouse unlikely focus of Wyoming wind wars

Reuters Life! Online Report - 400 days ago
CARBON, Wyoming (Reuters) - They used to mine coal in the abandoned town of Carbon. Now this patch of southern Wyoming is a battleground in the debate over what many hope will be the clean energy source of the future: wind power. ...
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