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.
Rocky Mountain Power
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.
Job loss and youth exodus: towns grapple with energy transition
Looming coal plant closures, energy industry layoffs and an exodus of young people has several Wyoming communities scratching their heads about how to forge economic transitions.
Jim Bridger: Lighting the country, laboring in the dark
The future is uncertain for the more than 800 workers who run the Jim Bridger power plant and associated mines in southwest Wyoming. Are they the canaries of their industry?
