{"id":190303,"date":"2024-05-29T02:23:28","date_gmt":"2024-05-29T07:23:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/05\/top-us-coal-producer-wyoming-just-approved-a-1-2b-solar-farm"},"modified":"2024-05-29T02:23:28","modified_gmt":"2024-05-29T07:23:28","slug":"top-us-coal-producer-wyoming-just-approved-a-1-2b-solar-farm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/05\/top-us-coal-producer-wyoming-just-approved-a-1-2b-solar-farm","title":{"rendered":"Top US coal producer Wyoming just approved a $1.2B solar farm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/top-us-coal-producer-wyoming-just-approved-a-1-2b-solar-farm2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Wyoming just <a href=\"https:\/\/content.govdelivery.com\/accounts\/WYDEQ\/bulletins\/39ded31\">approved<\/a> its largest solar farm \u2013 771 megawatts (MW) of utility-scale solar plus battery storage.<\/p>\n<p>Developer Enbridge has been issued a siting permit by the Industrial Siting Council to construct and operate Cowboy Solar I &amp; II on private land leases in Laramie County, in the state\u2019s southeast corner. Next steps will be to obtain county, environmental, and municipal permits.<\/p>\n<p>Cowboy Solar I will include 400 MW of solar power and 136 MW of battery storage, while Cowboy Solar II will have 371 MW of solar power and 133 MW of battery storage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wyoming just approved its largest solar farm \u2013 771 megawatts (MW) of utility-scale solar plus battery storage. Developer Enbridge has been issued a siting permit by the Industrial Siting Council to construct and operate Cowboy Solar I &amp; II on private land leases in Laramie County, in the state\u2019s southeast corner. Next steps will be [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1633,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-190303","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-solar-power","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190303","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=190303"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190303\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}