Past attempts to raise Wyoming’s tax on wind energy have failed in the Legislature. Wyoming’s existing wind generation tax generates a little over $4 million annually. Though the projects’ locations have not been disclosed, if they’re approved, they could bring jobs and revenue to the state.
During early contract negotiations, PacifiCorp would decide whether it intends to purchase power directly from a facility over a set period of time – usually 20 years – or buy the entire project from the developer after construction is complete. Wyoming’s six new wind farms would be built by their developers. They’ve already undergone scrutiny from PacifiCorp and two independent evaluators, but contract negotiations between the utility and the projects’ third-party developers, local and state permitting processes and state regulatory reviews are yet to come. It’s still early for the shortlisted projects. It developed the shortlist in May and finished evaluating the final 19 projects earlier this month. Over the year that followed, the company cut its original list of bids down by nearly 90 percent. The utility’s call for proposals the following July yielded feasible bids totaling more than 28,000 megawatts of capacity. It’s just incredibly affordable,” said Shannon Anderson, staff attorney for the Powder River Basin Resource Council, a Wyoming-based landowner and conservation group. “Planning process after planning process for the company has shown that Wyoming wind tops the list of cost competitiveness. PacifiCorp’s latest round of renewable development began in October 2019, when the company’s biannual economic analysis identified renewables as a highly cost-effective electricity source. The shortlist announcement comes on the heels of PacifiCorp’s Energy Vision 2020 initiative, which added more than 1,000 megawatts of wind resources and transmission to its generation capacity. While PacifiCorp has trialed battery storage through small-scale demonstration projects, this would be its first utility-scale battery installation. Battery storage eliminates those limitations. They were dependent upon when the resource was available, when the wind was blowing, or when the sun was shining,” said PacifiCorp spokesman David Eskelsen. Garlish added that the other states will likely not be interested in bearing the burden of the accrued costs from the carbon capture project when there are other, cheaper forms of energy. “Most of our early wind and solar projects, of course, were tied directly to the transmission system. Rocky Mountain Power serves six states, including Wyoming, and its costs to generate electricity are currently shared between all the customers. In recent years, the costs of battery storage have plummeted. Installed battery capacity reduces the volatility of renewables by storing unused electricity and releasing it to the grid later on. Unlike power plants, wind turbines and solar panels can’t generate electricity on demand. Nearly 1,000 megawatts of battery capacity is proposed across the two states.
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