‘Is it worth it?’ Experts eye economics of wind power

Transmitting electricity over hundreds of miles to market constrains wind energy development, speakers told 600 participants at a conference at the University of Wyoming last week.

So do local, state and federal regulation; and taxation issues, they said.

But Laura Ladd, energy economics advisor to Gov. Dave Freudenthal, noted a major omission to that list.

"Nowhere in here did we hear of economics as a constraint," Ladd said.

By TOM MORTON
Star-Tribune staff writer

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