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The Wyoming Energy Authority (WEA) seeks proposals from qualified consultants to conduct a comprehensive statewide transmission planning study to evaluate Wyoming’s electric transmission system and identify strategic opportunities for future transmission development.
This study is required under Wyoming Senate File 102 (2026), which directs WEA to conduct a comprehensive, two-phase state-wide transmission planning study, evaluating future load growth, transmission constraints, advanced technologies, and a qualitative electricity market participation assessment. The study will provide technical analysis and policy guidance to support future transmission infrastructure development and economic growth in Wyoming.
All submissions should be sent directly to John Jenks, Director of Energy Market Development.
The Wyoming Energy Authority (WEA) seeks proposals from qualified consultants to conduct a comprehensive statewide transmission planning study to evaluate Wyoming’s electric transmission system and identify strategic opportunities for future transmission development.
This study is required under Wyoming Senate File 102 (2026), which directs WEA to conduct a comprehensive, two-phase state-wide transmission planning study, evaluating future load growth, transmission constraints, advanced technologies, and a qualitative electricity market participation assessment. The study will provide technical analysis and policy guidance to support future transmission infrastructure development and economic growth in Wyoming.
This RFP is now closed.
Questions were submitted by August 09, 2026, at 5 pm MST. Read the questions here.
Contact Point: John Jenks, Director of Energy Market Development
Proposers should propose the structure they believe aligns with the scope and objectives.
The standard terms and conditions are laid out in the RFP and SF 102.
No, the Wyoming Public Service Commission may.
Yes, the WEA would assist with this.
There would be three stakeholder meetings at minimum. We envision the first one to be in person with the remaining virtual if it keeps the cost down.
There is no funding agreement. The WEA won’t have a funding agreement until we select a contractor.
This would be determined in the stakeholder process. However, the WEA anticipates more or less aligning the study with other entities’ work such as WECC and WestTEC.
Some flexibility however, as SF102 states, there are deadlines for us to meet.
The WEA would be happy to explore the coordination of non-public information with stakeholders during the stakeholder process if necessary. The WEA envisioned most of the study relying on public available information if necessary, however.
This would be determined in the stakeholder process. However, the WEA anticipates more or less aligning the study with other entities’ work such as WECC and WestTEC.
Yes, the study should consider reasonably foreseeable changes to Wyoming’s generation portfolio which may affect transmission needs.
Consultants should primarily rely on publicly available and credible planning sources, including utility Integrated Resource Plans (IRPs), regional transmission planning studies, publicly available interconnection queue information, announced projects and other relevant sources. Consultants may supplement these sources with independent assumptions where appropriate.
The WEA anticipates a combination of these considerations.
The WEA expects analysis to be on transmission planning and power flow techniques.
The gap analysis should identify existing and potential future transmission limitations that may constrain reliable service, resource development and economic growth.
The WEA believes a qualitative assessment should be sufficient but flexibility should be given to the stakeholder process.
It is limited to identifying constraints and potential solutions/scenarios.
The WEA does not.
The RFP should be sent to john.jenks1@wyo.gov.
The cost can be separate or in the proposal.
With regards to the meetings, we are envisioning three stakeholder meetings and 2-3 legislative meetings if staff feels the need for the consultant to attend those.
The requirements are laid out in SF102. More stakeholder will be added most likely and the WEA will help identify the stakeholders. As far as cadence, the WEA anticipated 3 stakeholder workshops and possibly some individual meetings.
See SF102.
The group is merely an advisory group. The WEA in coordination with the consultant will have the ultimate say on a final product.
WEA expects the study to include a geographic representation of Wyoming’s transmission system sufficient to support the study objectives. Consultants may also include one-line diagrams or other system representations where they provide additional value.
We are happy to assist, but envision the contractor doing the initial reach outs.
We’re looking for a power flow analysis, not an economic analysis.
Not “solutions” but possibilities or ideas of what solutions could look like. The stakeholders were clear they don’t want to be told what to do or have “solutions”.
The WEA does not intend for this study to serve as a formal NERC compliance assessment. Consultants should identify any reliability concerns relevant to the study objectives using accepted transmission planning practices.
Consultants should evaluate advanced transmission technologies they determine to be applicable to Wyoming’s transmission system and the study objectives.
The assessment should identify planning-level opportunities where advanced transmission technologies or other transmission improvements may address identified system limitations.