What if the wind sweeping down the plains of Wyoming could be harnessed to generate enough electricity to power the city of Los Angeles?
It soon could, thanks to a $9 billion wind farm and electricity superhighway backed by billionaire Philip Anschutz—one of a series of transmission-line projects that private investors are bankrolling to bring renewable energy from America’s hinterlands to its urban centers.
Near Rawlins, in…
