List of power stations in Wyoming


This is a list of electricity-generating power stations in the U.S. state of Wyoming, sorted by type and name. In 2023, Wyoming had a total summer capacity of 10,192 MW through all of its power plants, and a net generation of 43,181 GWh. The electrical energy generation mix in 2024 was 59.6% coal, 22.8% wind, 13.3% natural gas, 2.2% hydroelectric, 1% solar, 0.8% other gases, 0.1% petroleum, and 0.2% other. Small-scale solar, which includes customer-owned photovoltaic panels, delivered 33 GWh to Wyoming's electrical grid in 2024.
Wyoming has the smallest population in the U.S., and in 2019 three-fifths of its electricity generation was sent to nearby western states. It contains more than one-third of the nation's recoverable coal reserves, accounted for two-fifths of all related U.S. mining activity, and exported much of its low-sulfur coal to power plants in 29 other states. Wyoming also mined and exported nearly all the uranium used to fuel the nation's fleet of nuclear power stations. These activities have declined somewhat in recent years, while extraction of Wyoming's oil and gas reserves continued to expand.

Nuclear power stations

Wyoming has no utility-scale nuclear facilities. In June 2021, Terrapower and Pacificorp announced their intention to advance a novel reactor demonstration project at the site of a retiring coal plant in Wyoming. On 16 November 2021, Pacificorp announced the selection of the Naughton Power Plant in Kemmerer, Wyoming, for the Natrium Demonstration Project.

Fossil-fuel power stations

Data from the U.S. Energy Information Administration serves as a general reference.

Renewable power stations

Data from the U.S. Energy Information Administration serves as a general reference.

Biomass and industrial waste

Waste heat from phosphate fertilizer manufacturing

Geothermal

Wyoming has no utility-scale geothermal facilities. It has a number of small-scale geothermal installations used mostly to heat buildings.

Hydroelectric

NameLocationCoordinatesCapacity
Number of
turbines
Year
completed
Refs
AlcovaNatrona County41.421955
BoysenFremont County1521952
Buffalo BillPark County1831992
FontenelleLincoln County1011968
Fremont CanyonNatrona County66.821960/1961
Garland CanalPark County2.911983
GlendoPlatte County3821958/1959
GuernseyPlatte County6.421927/1928
Heart MountainPark County5.011948
KortesCarbon County3631950/1951
Pilot ButteFremont County1.621925/1929
Salt RiverCarbon County0.621936
1967
SeminoeCarbon County51.631939
Shoshone Park County3.011922
Spirit MountainPark County4.511994
Strawberry CreekLincoln County1.531940/1951
Swift CreekLincoln County1.732009/2010

Solar

PlantLocationCoordinatesCapacity
Year
completed
Refs
South Cheyenne SolarLaramie County1502024
Sweetwater SolarSweetwater County922018

Wind

PlantLocationCoordinatesCapacity
Number of
turbines
Year
completed
Refs
Campbell Hill WindpowerConverse County99662009
Casper Wind FarmNatrona County16.5112009
Cedar Springs Wind Farm (I-III)Converse County531.561922020
Corriedale Wind Energy ProjectLaramie County59.22212020
DunlapCarbon County136.9742010
Ekola FlatsCarbon County250.9632020
Foote Creek ICarbon County41.4691999
Foote Creek II, III, IV RepoweringCarbon County46.2112023
GlenrockConverse County119.3662008
Happy Jack Windpower ProjectLaramie County29.4142008
High PlainsAlbany County122.1662009
McFadden RidgeAlbany County35.15192009
Medicine BowCarbon County3.5552015
Mountain Wind Power IIUinta County79.8382008
Mountain Wind Power LLCUinta County60.9292008
Pioneer Wind Park, LLCConverse County80.0462016
Rolling Hills Wind FarmConverse County115.8662009
Roundhouse Wind Energy CenterLaramie County226.56822020
Seven Mile HillCarbon County122.1662008
Silver Sage WindpowerLaramie County42.0202009
TB Flats I and IICarbon County301.1852021
Top of the World Windpower ProjectConverse County200.21102010
TransAlta Wyoming WindUinta County144.0802003

The Chokecherry and Sierra Madre Wind Energy Project, with a planned capacity of up to 3,000 MW generated by about 1,000 turbines, is under construction in Carbon County and scheduled for completion in 2026. It would be the largest wind farm in the U.S. upon completion, and would serve the western U.S. market through planned new HVDC transmission capacity.

Battery storage facilities

Wyoming had no utility-scale battery storage facilities in 2019.