Crews from Energy Transportation Inc. place fiberglass blades for wind turbines in a line after unloading them from rail cars at the CTran rail yard last week. (Dan Cepeda/Star-Tribune)
Mike Stoesz shows his new Tangarie vertical axis wind turbine installed recently on the roof of his and wife Jeny's '21st century general store' in downtown Laramie. (Phil White/Star-Tribune correspondent)
PacifiCorp project manager Laine Anderson approaches the base of a three-tiered wind turbine which will eventually stand in the Glenrock-Rolling Hills Wind Farm northwest of Glenrock. The company is installing 355.5 megawatts of new wind capacity in Wyoming this year. Daniel Craig, Star-Tribune.
Workers spread concrete over one of the 158 wind turbine locations northeast of Glenrock that are part of Rocky Mountain Power's planned wind farms. The first phase of the project is scheduled for completion later this year. Tim Kupsick, Star-Tribune.
Casper wind project nears completion last week. The 880-acre property northeast of Evansville will be home to 11 turbines that will be generating electricity in Nov. 2009. (Tim Kupsick/Star-Tribune)
Scott Kane, co-owner of Creative Energies in Lander, stands on a wind turbine tower at the business. He says his company has installed about 20 small wind turbines throughout Wyoming in recent years, and interest in home-based wind power is growing. But up-front costs are still prohibitive for most people. Chris Merrill, Star-Tribune.
A wind turbine is raised using a cable and gin pole during a ceremony on Wednesday near Midwest. (Courtesy, Casper College)
Jim Nations, public relations manager for RMOTC, describes basic wind-power concepts to seventh-graders from Midwest School prior to the commissioning of a wind turbine on Wednesday. (Courtesy, Casper College)
The tiny Indiana bat is at the center of a controversy that pits environmental groups against a wind farm developer in West Virginia. (U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service photo)
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