HB0046

Expands Wyoming's excise tax on electricity production to include solar and nuclear generating facilities, while consolidating the tax framework under a single chapter.

• Amends the definition of 'generating facility' to include facilities producing electricity from wind, solar, or nuclear resources in Wyoming. (W.S. 39-22-101)
• Expands the excise tax to apply to electricity produced from solar and nuclear generating resources in addition to wind resources, imposed at the point of interconnection with an electric transmission line. (W.S. 39-22-103)
• Extends the three-year exemption period from the production tax to apply to solar and nuclear generating facilities, as it currently applies to wind turbines. (W.S. 39-22-105(b))
• Requires producers of electricity from solar and nuclear resources to report megawatt hours produced by February 1 of the year following production, consistent with wind resource reporting requirements. (W.S. 39-22-107(a))
• Repeals the existing separate tax chapter on electricity produced from nuclear reactors, consolidating nuclear taxation into the unified wind, solar, and nuclear tax framework. (W.S. 39-23-101 through 39-23-111, Section 2)

Effective: January 1, 2027

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