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Point of Rocks is home to the Jim Bridger Power Station. The 2,110 megawatt facility jointly owned by PacifiCorp (2/3 owner and operator of the plant), and Idaho Power (1/3 owner), and is one of the largest coal-fired electric power generation facilities in the western United States.
This is a list of electricity-generating power stations in the U.S. state of Wyoming, sorted by type and name. In 2021, Wyoming had a total summer capacity of 10,096 MW through all of its power plants, and a net generation of 46,017 GWh in 2022. [ 2 ]
Jim Bridger Power Station Bridgerland in Cache Valley in Utah and Idaho is a name that is used in many Logan, Utah -based businesses and institutions, such as Bridgerland Television and the Bridgerland Technical College .
The mine east of Rock Springs in the sparsely populated Red Desert produces 2.5 million tons (2.3 million metric tons) of coal a year primarily to feed PacifiCorp's nearby Jim Bridger power plant.
Map of all utility-scale power plants. This article lists the largest electricity generating stations in the United States in terms of installed electrical capacity. Non-renewable power stations are those that run on coal, fuel oils, nuclear, natural gas, oil shale, and peat, while renewable power stations run on fuel sources such as biomass, geothermal heat, hydro, solar energy, solar heat ...
Plant Bowen, the third-largest coal-fired power station in the United States. This is a list of the 215 operational coal-fired power stations in the United States.. Coal generated 16% of electricity in the United States in 2023, [1] an amount less than that from renewable energy or nuclear power, [2] [3] and about half of that generated by natural gas plants.
Wyoming Highway 377 (WYO 377) was a short 1.96-mile-long (3.2 km) Wyoming state road in central Sweetwater County that served the community of Point of Rocks and the Jim Bridger Power Plant. It was decommissioned in 2017.
A truck hauling coal for the Jim Bridger Power Plant near Point of Rocks, Wyo., dwarfs a nearby wild horse. Scientists trace the story of human presence in the Red Desert back 12,000 years. [3] Striking evidence of early human inhabitants is seen in rock art found at the Boars Tusk, East Flaming Gorge, and Seedskadee areas.