Dave Picard, a registered lobbyist and administrator for what remains of the Wyoming Power Producers Coalitions (WPPC), a trade group representing independent power producers (IPP), ticks off names of those who have left for better project opportunities and investment returns elsewhere.

Invenergy, Shell Wind Energy, Edison Mission (now NRG Energy) and so on.

“Five years ago we still had a shot at having about 10,000MW installed around this time by a variety of companies – 12 or 14 international or very well-known wind developers in the IPP space,” Picard claims.