This map shows the planned routes of the Gateway West, Gateway South and Gateway Central electrical transmission upgrades. (Courtesy, Rocky Mountain Power)
Gov. Dave Freudenthal addresses the crowd of approximately 600 people Thursday at the first Wyoming Wind Energy Symposium at the University of Wyoming in Laramie. (Courtesy/University of Wyoming)
A group of 260-feet tall wind towers are silhoutted against a bright orange sky at the Elk River Wind farm near Beaumont, Kan. The spinning blades atop 200-foot towers might appear to the naked eye as … well … spinning blades. But to Doppler radar, wind farms appear as a splatter of green, yellow, orange and red _ much like a violent storm or even a tornado. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel, file)
Afternoon light highlights power lines beneath a wind farm near Arlington. The need for more electrical transmission in the West was identified as the region's No. 1 energy issue by participants in the Western States Energy and Environment Symposium. (Mark Gocke/Star-Tribune correspondent)
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