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)
DeSava Greenhouse manager Ruth Jones and her son Tom Jones brace themselves while inspecting the greenhouse demolished by strong winds Thursday in Casper. The structure, located in the parking lot of Sunrise Shopping Center, was blown apart by winds gusting over 60 mph. Photo by Dan Cepeda/Casper Star-Tribune.
Barney the dog braces himself against the wind as his owner Deanna Burger prepares to load him and fellow dog Brazette in a vehicle Thursday afternoon after a walk through City Park in Casper. Burger took her dogs for their regular walk despite the gusty winds rushing through central Wyoming. Photo by Dan Cepeda/Casper Star-Tribune.
Russ Satterfield of Superior Signs repaints a sign at the Conoco station in Mills on Friday afternoon. A rare calm day with calm winds let workers for Superior Signs catch up on work they otherwise were kept from doing in strong winds. Photo by Dan Cepeda, 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)
Gov. Dave Freudenthal examines one of the solar-and wind-powered stock water pumps the state is helping ranchers obtain as part of a pilot project. Photo by Bill Luckett/Casper Star-Tribune.
George Aydelott shovels snow off the walk in front of his Rawlins home this morning as area residents awakened to a late spring blast of slushy snow.
Courtesy, Kathy Johnson
Investors are warming up to the idea of wind power, from sources such as these windmills in Uinta County, as a form of energy for the state.
Photo by Paul Ng, Star-Tribune correspondent
A wind farm is shown under construction near Glenrock in this file photo from August. (Dan Cepeda/Star-Tribune)
Bud Baxter, of Baxter Brothers Drywall, applies stucco to the walls of the old Tripeny Motors building in the Old Yellowstone District on Monday afternoon in Casper. The city council tonight will consider changes to code in the Old Yellowstone District. (Dan Cepeda, Star-Tribune)
Workers dig with a backhoe beneath several mammoth wind turbines installed in the Bridger Butte area in eastern Uinta County. Jeff Gearino, Star-Tribune.
Gov. Dave Freudenthal addresses the crowd of approximately 600 people Thursday at the first Wyoming Wind Energy Symposium at the University of Wyoming in Laramie. (Courtesy/University of Wyoming)
Wind projects move forward, despite stormy economy
Investors are warming up to the idea of wind power, from sources such as these windmills in Uinta County, as a form of energy for the state.
Photo by Paul Ng, Star-Tribune correspondent
Crews lower the Wyoming Medical Center's helicopter from the helipad on the roof of the hospital on Wednesday. The helicopter was damaged in high winds Tuesday. Photo by Christine Robinson, Star-Tribune.
A male mountain goat, previously undocumented in the Wind River Range, walks past Katie Mortenson near Fremont Peak, Wyo., on Saturday, Aug. 22. (AP Photo/Katie Mortenson)
Jeff Meyer, managing partner of Pathfinder Renewable Energy LLC, and Mark Doelger, an adviser with Barlow & Haun Inc., stand next to a meteorological tower used to measure wind speeds and direction on Monday afternoon at the Pathfinder Ranch. Meyer, who owns the historic ranch, is developing a 'master plan' for wind development in central Wyoming. (Dan Cepeda/Star-Tribune)
Stewart Blackford, left, attaches a 170lb wind turbine to a pole while SunPower Energy co-owner Gene Theriault lifts it up at VFW Post #9439 on Wednesday afternoon. While these wind turbines are under the jurisdiction of the city of Casper, Natrona County is also currently looking at wind turbine regulations. Photo by Kerry Huller, Star-Tribune
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.
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