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Montana needs fair access to renewable energy markets
August 13, 2013/
Anyone interested in economic opportunity for Montana should be concerned with the Bonneville Power Administration’s (BPA’s) transmission policies.
Earlier this month, NorthWestern Energy officially dedicated its new 40-megawatt wind farm, Spion Kop, near Great Falls. The wind farm is already exceeding expectations and NorthWestern Energy deemed it a "phenomenal" energy resource providing cheap, clean energy for thousands of Montana households.
Energy from the wind farm will cost approximately $54 per megawatt-hour, nearly $10 per megawatt-hour cheaper than NorthWestern’s Colstrip coal energy. Spion Kop also exemplifies Montana’s famously constant and energetic winds, exceeding the productivity of wind farms in other states.
By JEFF L. FOX
