In the past, electric power created in Wyoming occurred because of coal.  Many utilities will go on with this reliance on fossil fuels.  Wyoming energy businesses intend to raise the energy production from coal by 18.5 percent.  Existing plans say a mere 0.9 percent of power will be due to renewable supplies like wind, solar, geothermal, and biomass. More about this can be found at http://www.wsgs.uwyo.edu/coal/

The University of Wyoming is sponsoring some researchers who plan to build a research plant that will create some new cleaner coal technology.  While the requirement for electricity climbs, the question of how to manage carbon while still using coal is something we will confront for several years. The research done at this new plant will answer some of those questions and add coal to the mixture of cleaner and safer domestic fuel far into the future. 

Thanks to cleaner coal technology, coal-based generation fleets are seventy-seven percent cleaner than they were thirty years ago.  Setting up new technologies for energy takes some time, but progress is being made.