The plan, totaling some $3.5 billion, will involve significant upgrades to existing wind plants, construction of a 140 miles of transmission line in Wyoming and adding up to 1,100 megawatts of new wind projects -- primarily in Wyoming -- by the end of 2020.
Understatement: Wyoming wind can be brutal.
Early March of 2017 saw some of the most intense winds Wyoming has seen in years. Highways have were shut down to high profile traffic and light trucks. Monday March sixth Douglas Wyoming asked people to just stay home...
The top complaint about Wyoming is the wind, but nobody can do anything about it, Rather than complain, Buffalo’s John Lohr came up with a great way to deal, embrace the wind.
When operational, the project will be capable of generating up to 3,000 megawatts of power -- enough to power nearly one million homes, according to a BLM news release.
The storm clouds sit perched atop Casper Mountain. The wind whips and spins the snow into a billowing fog that drapes the town. It is both beautiful and deadly.
The 70 mile per hour wind we had today was no joke! It even flipped a semi over earlier on Outer Drive! Maybe that's why Casper resident Jenny Dexter Clay decided to give us a tutorial on the proper way to enter and exit your vehicle in the wind.