Last Updated on: 27th July 2025, 02:06 pm
On one hand, politicians in Wyoming are delighted that the Project 2025-inspired “Big Beautiful Bill” will enhance support via tax breaks for the state’s faltering fossil fuel industry. Ironically, the same politicians are also a bit pissy that wind and solar — the cheapest and fastest-growing energy sector in the state and nation — are under real threat of collapse.
Wyoming generates about 10,200 megawatts of electricity from all sources, according to state and federal data. Nearly one-third comes from wind and solar, and one megawatt is enough electricity to power about 750 homes. More than half the electrons generated in the state are exported to customers outside Wyoming’s borders.
The upcoming loss of tax credits will have statewide effects due to the demise of hundreds of electrical power sector projects and the long-term consequences of that industry vacuum.
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