07/01/26
Utah Governor Spencer Cox releases Energy Superabundance report
Energy Superabundance: Unlocking Prosperity in the West is the WGA Chair initiative of Utah Governor Spencer Cox. The year-long initiative featured four workshops hosted by Governor Cox, Arizona Governor Katie Hobbs, Colorado Governor Jared Polis, and Idaho Governor Brad Little. The workshops convened industry experts, thought leaders, and policymakers to examine the various challenges and opportunities for achieving energy superabundance across the region through expanded and improved energy production, transmission, and storage.
The initiative culminated with the release of the Energy Superabundance Report at WGA’s Annual Meeting in Deer Valley, Utah. The report summarized the key issues explored during the workshops and presented federal policy recommendations developed from those discussions to help plan, finance, develop, and deploy energy projects across the West.
“We live in an age of miracles, and every one of those miracles needs an electron,” said Governor Cox during WGA’s Annual Meeting. “Because when an electron touches a hospital, lives are saved. When an electron touches a school, ideas come to fruition, and wisdom is learned. When an electron touches a home, families flourish. By definition, we have to work together if we're going to get those electrons where they need to go, and if we're going to lower prices for the people who call our states home and make life easier and more abundant so that human flourishing can actually happen at levels that we've never experienced before.”
Read the report here.