Flight Interrupted
By Jill Bergman
By Jill Bergman
By Randy Rea
By Emilene Ostlind
By Birch Malotky
By Tessa Wittman
In the natural gas fields of western Wyoming, innumerable dirt roads cut through the sagebrush steppe, connecting gas wells and carrying heavy equipment.
On an unseasonably warm day last October, Richard Fox pulled up to the construction site of his future home near Pavillion, Wyoming, in an old Toyota pickup.
Keeping the lights and heat on at the University of Wyoming is a challenge.
Before Macy Miller moved into her 232-square-foot tiny home in Boise, Idaho
Community solar—sometimes referred to as a solar garden or virtual net metering—is when several households, businesses, or other entities invest together in a solar installation and share the electricity it produces.
Net metering lets customers tie small-scale renewable energy systems such as solar panels into the grid to offset their energy bills.
California and Wyoming make strange bedfellows, but when it comes to sharing electricity, the two states have been flirting.
Renewable energy is on the rise in the western United States, and the world.
Wyoming’s strong, predictable, consistent winds are a world-class resource. Ranchers and farmers have harnessed the wind to pump water since Wyoming was first settled, and small-scale commercial wind projects started in the 1970s.
Several states have implemented Renewable Portfolio Standards in an effort to cut greenhouse gas emissions from the electricity sector.
Nearly 500 Wyoming coal miners were laid off last spring, and in the past two years roughly 5,400 oilfield workers lost their jobs in the state.
The world needs more energy. More than 1.4 billion people live without access to electricity.
“If we disconnected that 14-inch pipe and pointed it upward, the water would blast nearly 600 feet into the air,” says Les Hook
Brady Godwin was on the lookout for river otters.
This December, five international research teams will converge at the outskirts of Gillette, Wyoming, to compete for a $7.5 million Carbon XPRIZE.
Over the last quarter century, the western states’ energy portfolio has shifted. Coal used to produce far and away the largest share of electricity, but recent advances in hydraulic fracturing and demand for low-carbon fuel have bumped natural gas to first place.