Our state has generated unsustainable wealth for over fifty years through taxes and royalties from our abundant fossil fuel resources. Coal production and associated employment have been in a steady free fall in the state in very recent years. In 2021 and going forward, fossil fuel industries will be negatively impacted as the world continues to decarbonize.

With the decline comes the departure of residents from beautiful communities built during the booms. Young adults that left their hometowns for college in Laramie often don’t come back to the place that raised their parents, grandparents, and multiple generations before them. The opportunities that were once plentiful aren’t there anymore. The industries that built our state continue to contract and emerging ones aren’t replacing them.

The Wyoming economy is critically dependent on the rapidly changing energy sector. The WY RANCH works as statewide collaborators for the Wyoming energy transition. We have funding from the Department of Energy to build the “Energy Innovation Cluster” for Wyoming. We’ve been working diligently on that concept - while continually adapting to new policies, coal mine and coal plant closures, and statewide budget cuts.

 Wyoming offers its residents and businesses tremendous opportunities that we’d love to discuss. We invite you to further explore what Wyoming means to us. We are happy to make connections, discuss relocation, and job opportunities with the state.