Aspen Code Development Collaboration

Abstract

Wyoming has a wealth of primary energy resources in the forms of coal, natural gas, wind, uranium, and oil shale. Most of Wyoming’s coal and gas resources are exported from the state in unprocessed form rather than as refined higher value products. Wyoming’s leadership recognizes the opportunity to broaden the state’s economic base energy resources to make value-added products such as synthetic vehicle fuels and commodity chemicals. Producing these higher value products in an environmentally responsible manner can benefit from the use of clean energy technologies including Wyoming’s abundant wind energy and nuclear energy such as new generation small modular reactors including the high temperature gas-cooled reactors.