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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 ]
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.
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.
James Felix Bridger was born on March 17, 1804, in Richmond, Virginia. [6] His parents were James Bridger, an innkeeper in Richmond, and his wife Chloe. [6] About 1812, the family moved near St. Louis at the eastern edge of America's vast new western frontier. [6]
All three of these are nuclear power plants, and eight of the top 10 power plants with the largest annual net generation in 2021 are nuclear power plants. [2] The largest power generating facility under construction is the Chokecherry and Sierra Madre Wind Energy Project in Wyoming, which will generate 2,500-3,000 MW when completed in 2026. [3]
CHEYENNE — Of the 54 operational nuclear power plants in the United States, only three have become operational since 1997. In June, a new plant broke ground near Kemmerer with the hope of ...
The problem is, are they counting the stacks? Smokestacks don't count. "Wyoming Almanac" sounds official but it may be just a website run by the Roberts boys -- I don't know. The masthead says "History and opinion, by Phil Roberts", so dunno about that. here's some pictures of the Jim Bridger plant. Even aside from the stacks, those non-stack ...