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  making it illegal to set up any large-scale wind or solar farm...

when that electricity is then sold to Wyoming consumers. Export to out-of-state consumers (the vast majority of consumption) is unaffected.

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Fair enough. Though it makes it pretty unappealing to set up a renewable energy source in Wyoming, or even in the general vicinity of the state, if you can't actually sell to people or utilities nearby. At that point, the only good reason to set up a renewable energy plant within Wyoming is if you have some extremely good geographical/climate/geological reason to do so.

Note also that this bill also blocks geothermal energy, which I would expect should be pretty attractive as a source of energy for the home state of Yellowstone and Old Faithful.

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