Gov, EPA outline plans to boost carbon capture, delay plant closures
Coal strategy based in part on new Department of Energy study that’s already panned by skeptics, utility.
Rocky Mountain Power
Stripped of $1B limit, Gordon carbon capture bill clears House
The House on Friday passed a Gov. Mark Gordon-backed bill that would subsidize carbon capture projects through Wyoming residents’ electrical bills, without the original $1 billion subsidy limit.
Economic, existential angst mark start of utility investigation
The Wyoming Public Service Commission hears the fears and resentments of energy transition casualties in Kemmerer and Rock Springs.
Lawmakers advance ‘piecemeal’ electric grid deregulation bill
A legislative committee voted to sponsor bill that allows new buyers of coal plants to plug into the utility grid. It was one of several utility-related bills considered Nov. 19.
The Wyoming PSC’s uncomfortable moment in the spotlight
With few options to slow coal’s decline, lawmakers turn to a lever that in better days may have been anathema to free-market Republicans: the regulators.
