BLM conducts own wind, transmission study

The U.S. Bureau of Land Management is a year into a study meant to identify the most suitable areas to put wind turbines and transmission lines in Wyoming.

Mike Valle, a program analyst with the state BLM office in Cheyenne, said the BLM is in Phase I of a three-phase study, which could be completed in three to four years.

By that time, construction of the Chokecherry Sierra Madre Wind Farm, the TransWest Transmission Line and the Gateway West Transmission Line could all be under way in Carbon County.

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