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Wyoming Energy Authority updates committee on energy matching funds, large‑project criteria and coal study
Summary
Rob Krieger, executive director of the Wyoming Energy Authority, told the Joint Minerals Committee the authority has used state matching dollars to leverage roughly $400 million of additional private and federal investment across 24 projects and will deliver an energy inventory and impact study to lawmakers by Oct. 1.
Rob Krieger, executive director of the Wyoming Energy Authority, briefed the Joint Minerals Committee on June 20 on the authority’s program activity, the energy matching funds portfolio and planned interim studies. Krieger said the energy matching funds are intended to help Wyoming projects land federal grants and private capital by covering required cost‑share and by making Wyoming more competitive for projects that involve carbon capture, hydrogen, advanced power generation and other energy technologies.
Krieger reminded the committee that the authority is a small, quasi‑state entity with a broad mission that includes serving as a hub for energy projects, leveraging other state, federal and private programs, and administering several federal state energy programs. He said the energy matching funds were created in 2022 and the total state appropriations designated for the matching and large‑project funds now total about $255 million; after prior earmarks for specific coal work…
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