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  • Casper company aims to improve wind turbine recycling process

    Zak Sonntag, Casper Star-Tribune|Jun 20, 2024

    Via Wyoming News Exchange CASPER — Wind turbines, which produce some of the cheapest energy on the grid, have long been an environmental darling. But in recent years the wind industry is catching blowback for its end-of-life footprint as decommissioned blades– some of them longer than the wings of a BOEING 747 airplane–are piling up in landfills across America. The Casper Regional Landfill has interned more than 1,200 blades since 2020 and is slated to receive hundreds more in the coming years. As utilities nation-wide double down on wind...

  • Public Service Commission: Rocky Mountain Power rate hike all but certain to be lower than proposed

    Zak Sonntag, Casper Star-Tribune|Dec 7, 2023

    By Via Wyoming News Exchange CASPER — The Wyoming Public Service Commission this week held public deliberation on Rocky Mountain Power’s historic rate hike proposal and emerged with a rough outline of a counter agreement that diverges significantly from the company’s preferred outcome. The discussions offered a first look at what’s likely to result from the commission’s most contentious case in recent memory. “This case, unlike any other since I began serving on this commission in 2018, has garnered intense interest for residential customers,...

  • Rocky Mountain Power wants to reward shareholders; some say 10% is excessive and propose lower amounts

    Zak Sonntag, Casper Star-Tribune|Nov 9, 2023

    Via Wyoming News Exchange CASPER — The Wyoming Public Service Commission (PSC) last week wrapped its intensive hearing on Rocky Mountain Power’s (RMP) general rate increase proposal — a process replete with heady testimony, incisive cross examination, and impassioned public comment. The proposal heaved into public discourse a plethora of technocratic concepts — like multi state protocols, debt to equity ratios, and sharing band incentives — underscoring the challenge ahead for the PSC, which finds itself at the unenviable collision point bet...