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A Sunday morning fire at the Laramie River Station power plant near Wheatland injured three workers, sending one to a Colorado burn center Monday. Two other employees were treated for ...
When Laramie River Station (LRS), near Wheatland, Wyo., was built nearly 35 years ago, it was state-of-the-art. Constructed by the Missouri Basin Power Project (MBPP), ...
Laramie River Station was built east of Wheatland, Wyoming, and its first 570-MW unit began operations in 1980. Two additional 570-MW units came online over the next two years.
WHEATLAND — Somewhere around 85 protesters peacefully gathered at Basin Electric Laramie River Station near gate No. 1 last Friday from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m., where they called out ...
WHEATLAND — Basin Electric Power Cooperative is investing $350 million at Laramie River Station in a project to reduce regional haze in accordance with an agreement Basin entered with the U.S ...
A recent fire at the Laramie River Station coal-fired power plant near Wheatland, Wyo. injured three plant employees. The fire was the second at the plant in a five-day period.. The fire started ...
WHEATLAND (AP) - A power plant that helps light homes in five states is looking to buy water from local farmers because the drought has sapped its supply from a nearby reservoir. The Laramie River ...
Steam rises from the stacks of Basin Electric’s Laramie River Station coal-fired power plant near Wheatland, Wyo., in 2014. Alan Rogers/For The Gazette ...
Laramie River Station comprises three coal-based units, each with 550 megawatts of capacity. Units 1, 2 and 3 began operating in 1980, 1981 and 1982, respectively. Laramie River is unique because it ...
The Lincoln Electric System may be forced to spend $83 million to help reduce haze-causing emissions from a coal plant it partly owns in Wyoming.
A group of six electric utilities, the Missouri Basin Power Project participants, own the Laramie River Station generation plant and adjacent facilities near Wheatland, Wyo. Basin Electric is a 42 ...
WHEATLAND – Protesters gathered at Basin Electric’s Laramie River Station last Friday in opposition to COVID vaccine mandates. Approximately 85 vaccine mandate opponents, including some ...