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Governor awards $100M to BWXT for Gillette fuel fabrication facility, WEA says
Summary
Rob Krieger told the committee that the governor awarded $100 million from the large project energy matching fund (section 3.23) to BWXT to build a nuclear fuel fabrication facility in Gillette; BWXT is providing more than $470 million in matching funds and WEA recommended the project after a review process.
Rob Krieger, executive director of the Wyoming Energy Authority, told the Joint Appropriations Committee that the review committee recommended a single large project out of the large energy matching fund and the governor approved a $100,000,000 award to BWXT for a nuclear fuel fabrication facility in Gillette.
Krieger described section 3.23 (passed in 2024) as a $100,000,000 large project energy matching fund and said the legislature expressly tasked the WEA with implementing the project review and that the governor has final approval authority. "We entered an…
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