The plan, totaling some $3.5 billion, will involve significant upgrades to existing wind plants, construction of a 140 miles of transmission line in Wyoming and adding up to 1,100 megawatts of new wind projects -- primarily in Wyoming -- by the end of 2020.
According to Margaret Oler of the Rocky Mountain Power newsroom, the second outage affected 2,100 customers in Laramie. Oler said that Rocky Mountain Power was able to help restore power to customers at 12:36 a.m.
In addition to the three Laramie firefighters, three Laramie police officers responded along with one Cowboy Aviation employee and one Albany County Central volunteer arrived in a personal vehicle.
An equipment failure caused well over a thousand Laramie customers to lose power for just over four hours Tuesday.
Paul Murphy of Rocky Mountain Power says that at 1,297 customers lost power at 7:56 p.m. due to a line that went down and a burnt jumper...