Wyoming Business

"There is a huge market for wind right now in places like Arizona and southern Nevada and Southern California, especially with the emphasis on clean energy and the opposition to coal-fueled energy."

If Wyoming legislators are willing to put up $20 million, General Electric may match that amount to build a research facility in the state aimed at reducing the cost of turning Wyoming coal into clean-burning gas.

“The tradition has been that if you don’t like their book, we call for the faculty member to be fired.” Gov. Freudenthal

Wyoming ranks seventh in the nation for wind electrical generation potential but is 15th in production, according to 2007 figures released this week by the American Wind Energy Association.

The company’s ‘green’ data center facility is one of the nation’s only 100% renewable energy powered data centers.

"We’re going to release a premium product, and our goal all along is to produce a value-added Wyoming product that the agricultural growers can be proud of."

"It’s greatly based on parents working with their child all day."

James Klessens of Joliet is currently the director of Two Rivers Authority, the city of Hardin’s economic development arm.

Ula noted that in 1999, Wyoming ranked fifth in the country, generating 73 megawatts of wind power electricity. Today, according to data compiled by the National Renewable Energy Lab, Wyoming ranks 13th in the country, generating 288 megawatts.

"The volume of our business is absolutely related to the number of people I can find to do the work," Woodward said. "We’ve moved past putting an ad in the paper; we have a whole recruitment program we are using."