WMPA Generation

Laramie River Station

Plant Statistics:

• Capacity - 570,000 kilowatts/unit (net)
• Plant Building - 20 Stories High
• Plant Site - one square mile
• Chimneys - 604 feet high
• Fuel - Sub-bituminous coal
• Coal Consumption - 7,800 tons/day/unit
• Cooling towers - cool 110,000 gallons of water/minute
• Electric Motors - up to 7000 horsepower; 3825 motors/3 units
• Voltage - generated at 24,000 volts and transformed to 345,000 volts
• Cable - 2358 miles/3 units

WMPA owns 1.37% of Laramie River Station, which was completed in the early 1980's. WMPA receives approximately 23 MW of capacity and 175 million kilowatt hours per year of energy from LRS. WMPA is one of six partners in the Missouri Basin Power Project that includes 3- 570 MW Generating Units at Laramie River Station, the 104,000 acre-ft Grayrocks Dam and reservoir, and 500+ miles of EHV transmission. For more information please reference Basin Electric's website.

WMPA owns 7.1% of Dry Fork Station, which became commercial on November 1, 2011. WMPA receives about 29 MW of capacity and 221 million kilowatt hours per year of energy from DFS. Dry Fork Station is a 405 MW, air cooled, mine-mouth generating facility with state of the art environmental controls. For more information please reference Basin Electric's website or download the Welcome to Dry Fork Station brochure.

In addition, the Agency is a contractor for Federal Hydropower from the Loveland Area Projects and the Colorado River Storage Project. When all of these resources are scheduled to meet our member loads, it provides economic, environmentally responsible, and reliable electricity to eight cities and towns in Wyoming!

Requests for further information about the Missouri Basin Power Project or the Laramie River Station should be directed to: