Hydropower project proposed for Kemmerer

KEMMERER — With at least four major pumped storage projects being proposed in Wyoming, PacifiCorp hopes to build one of them near Kemmerer.

PacifiCorp applied for a preliminary permit to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, proposing a pumped storage facility near Lake Viva Naughton outside Kemmerer. The company sent an application for a license for the project while undertaking the studies necessary to determine its feasibility.

The proposed pumped storage project would use the waters within Lake Viva Naughton for the lower reservoir and would require the construction of a new upper reservoir. There are two alternative upper reservoir configurations for evaluation during the preliminary permit term.