The climate for wind and solar power has been getting downright chilly in the Cowboy State, but no one in that sector appears to be freaking out yet.
That’s despite recent executive orders from President Donald Trump calling for a moratorium and review of wind leases. Trump has said point blank he doesn’t want to see even one more wind tower built in the U.S.
And it’s also despite a string of bills in the Wyoming legislature that seek to place moratoriums on more renewables.
Or, at the very least, place fossil fuels in a place of primacy over renewables, with bills like State Sen. Cheri Steinmetz, R-Lingle’s, “Make Carbon Great Again” bill, or Senate Joint Resolution 4, which asks Gov. Mark Gordon to oppose “future promotion and subsidization of commercial wind and solar power generation in the state of Wyoming and promote efforts that provide Wyoming’s stable dispatchable base load energy to all of…
