Another One Bites the Dust: Wyoming Wind Farm Coming Down

Protestations of climate scolds notwithstanding, many of the various assorted "green energy" boondoggles are collapsing of their own non-viability. As we continually see demonstrated, if a thing has to be subsidized to be employed, then it never should have happened. If solar and wind power were economically viable, instead of expensive and unreliable, the nation's various utility companies would have adopted them without government prodding.

Case in point: A wind farm near Evansville, Wyoming, a suburb of Casper, that has been inactive for two years, is finally slated to be torn down. Now, if you've ever traveled through that part of Wyoming, you know that the one constant there is wind. But even there, this boondoggle just didn't work.

The inactive 11-turbine Casper Wind Farm that sits north of Evansville, Wyoming, is on its way out.
Chevron Power and Energy Management Co. spokesperson Patricia Enrico confirmed Thursday that the company notified the Natrona County Board of Commissioners in March that the company plans to decommission all of the 240-feet high, 450,000-pound wind turbines on the farm.
“On June 30, 2025, Chevron sent a decommissioning plan to the county commissioners as required by the county permit and are proceeding in accordance with the plan,” she said. “Chevron continually reviews its assets portfolio, including the Casper Wind Farm, to determine strategic value to support our operations.”
Enrico said the company has not been able to resolve issues to become a resource in the Western Energy Market.

The site was chosen because it's the site of a former Texaco refinery, and the ground is contaminated. Chevron, who put up the windmills, claimed it was the only productive use for the site north of the North Platte River. The towers were sold to the community as a grid-scale electricity source.

It didn't work.

Chevron’s President Greg Vesey in 2009 called the project “an excellent opportunity and location for the company’s first wholly owned wind facility, but the Casper Wind Farm also brings the former refinery site back into energy production with renewable energy.”
The website gridinfo.com ranks the Casper Wind 31 out of 31 wind power plants in the state.
It reported that the wind farm generated 2.1 gigawatt hours during a three-month period between September and December 2023.

Now, at least, the mills are coming down, and while something will have to be done with the huge carbon-fiber blades, that's Chevron's problem.

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This should serve as yet another object lesson in the debate over wind and solar power. Both are great in niche applications. Both stink on ice on grid-scale applications. Both are ugly, both destroy habitat, and both result in untold numbers of deaths of birds and other wildlife. Worse, both are low-density sources at a time when America's energy needs are growing. New technologies, like artificial intelligence and the data centers that support it, will require high-density, reliable, and affordable electricity.

Booming electricity demand for artificial intelligence (AI) is reshaping the electric grid. Bloomberg New Energy Finance estimates 63% of global power plants built to satiate AI’s thirst for reliable, around-the-clock power will be coal, nuclear, and natural gas plants.The reason is simple: the reliability value of wind and solar falls dramatically as more of these facilities are placed into service.

In Evansville, Wyoming, at least one eyesore is coming down. That land can and should be cleaned up and returned to some better use; what that use will be is properly left up to the people of Evansville. But if solar power isn't viable there, it isn't viable anywhere, and that's a natural-born fact.

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