All recommendations contained here were acceptable to all direct collaborative participants at this time. In the end, the group decided to focus on recommendations specific to siting and permitting renewable energy generation facilities in Wyoming. The group also learned from and consulted with experts from the Wyoming Industrial Siting Division, the Wyoming Game and Fish Department, and the Wyoming Wildlife and Natural Resource Trust. The groupвЂ™s conversations covered several issues related to renewable energy in Wyoming including tax policy, federal/state revenue sharing, transmission development, supply-chain manufacturing, and other topics. The objective was to seek broad agreements in principle, rather than focus on detailed recommendations, with the shared understanding that any formal regulatory or policy change would only be made via official state processes that include opportunity for public participation. The group met nine times between December 2020 and July 2021. To discuss this and related questions, the Ruckelshaus Institute at the University of Wyoming convened a collaborative process to generate proactive policy recommendations for consideration by State of Wyoming leadership in siting future renewable energy projects. Assuming the renewable energy industry continues to grow in Wyoming, are there opportunities for the state to improve its leadership in how renewable energy is sited? Process Wyoming also desires to continue to preserve its highly valued environmental resources. With strong wind and solar resource potential, Wyoming has an opportunity to participate in these markets by hosting new utility-scale wind and solar power plants. Energy markets are changing to reflect a growing domestic demand for low-carbon energy supplies, including electricity generated by renewable resources.

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