Cowboy State Daily: Horse Creek Neighbors Organize Over Proposed Black Hills Energy Power Plant

Cowboy State Daily reports on growing neighborhood opposition to Black Hills Energy’s proposed natural-gas generation and battery-storage facility north of Cheyenne, which the company says is informally known as the Prairie West Energy Complex. The article covers residents’ concerns about groundwater, noise, lighting, transmission infrastructure, property values and loss of rural character; HorseCreekProject.org’s community organizing; delivery of 968 neighborhood mailers; 51 responses received in the first 24 hours; more than 100 petition signatures; and the October 13 community meeting. Black Hills Energy declined to answer the reporter’s specific questions about water use, site selection and a possible data-center connection, instead reiterating that the project remains in early planning and that more information will be shared as plans develop.

This article provides independent documentation that community interest has expanded beyond a few adjacent landowners and that residents are organizing before the project reaches later regulatory stages. It also adds a potentially important new project identifier—“Prairie West Energy Complex”—that may be useful when searching future filings and public records. The article distinguishes confirmed project information from resident concerns and interpretations; in particular, speculation about a future data center remains unconfirmed.

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