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Wyoming committee advances bill letting cities build wholesale generation, with PSC safeguards added
Summary
The joint interim Corporations, Elections & Political Subdivisions Committee on Oct. 22 amended and advanced a bill (25 LSO 027) that would let municipalities build electricity production facilities on municipal property and sell wholesale power under agreements with certificated utilities; an amendment preserves existing municipal utilities and clarifies Public Service Commission review of wholesale contracts.
The Joint Interim Corporations, Elections & Political Subdivisions Committee advanced legislation on Tuesday that would allow Wyoming cities and towns to establish, construct and sell electricity from generation facilities on municipally owned property.
The bill, 25 LSO 027, as amended, clarifies that municipalities may construct electric-light and power plants and sell electricity wholesale, but only pursuant to a commission‑regulated agreement with the certificated public utility serving that territory. Committee counsel Josh Anderson described the draft as a clarifying measure that would also allow municipalities to issue revenue bonds for such projects and state that municipal operations would not be treated as public utilities or as customer‑generators for…
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