WYOMING ENERGY FACTS and resources

It’s their land, they can do what they want with it. Wind and solar help support farm and ranch families for generations to come, with an average of $11 million per year in land lease payments from wind farms to family ranchers and farms.

Wind and solar are homegrown resources, just like our other energy sources. Today, Wyoming produces 12 times more energy than it consumes making it the fourth biggest net energy supplier in the US.

$739 million in property taxes; $410 million in sales and use taxes; $452 million in generation taxes, all which go to support schools, first-responders, infrastructure and other critical government services.

Wyoming has great wind potential from intense wind that comes through the mountain passes and across the prairie land. Wyoming is 26th nationally in renewable energy generation as a percent of total state generation, and 17th in total wind generation.

More generation means more revenue, not higher taxes. Existing and planned wind power projects represent billions of dollars of new investment in Wyoming’s power sector, with 3,236 megawatts of utility-scale wind power capacity online as of the end of 2023.

Wind and solar provide needed revenue to our communities and state budget. Wind helps to diversity our state economy, and wind projects provide $8 million in tax revenue on average annually to local and state governments.