Photo Credit:Fair Use [17 U.S.C. § 107] Goshen County Seat of Torrington, WY on the border with Nebraska

Stuck Off the Grid: How Wyoming's Pioneer Agri-Solar Farm Hit a Transmission Wall

15 Aug 2025 | Abstracted from EVWorld.com

Cowboy Energy's $155M Wyoming agrivoltaics project - combining solar panels with cattle grazing - sits fully permitted but can't connect to grid. Tri-State Transmission offers 2034 start date, 9 years away, despite transmission lines crossing the property. Kafkaesque 45-day annual application windows and 18+ month reviews strangle renewable projects and in Wyoming coal politics can complicate matters.

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