NorthWestern Energy Group, Inc.
NorthWestern Energy Group Inc provides electricity and natural gas services in the Upper Midwest and Northwest of the U.S. in the states of Montana, South Dakota, Nebraska, and Yellowstone National Park. The company's primary segments include Electric utility operations, which include the generation, purchase, transmission, and distribution of electricity, and Natural Gas utility operations, which include the production, purchase, transmission, storage, and distribution of natural gas. The company uses thermal, wind, hydro, or renewable energy in varying quantities, depending on the location of the facilities, to generate power. The company derives the majority of its revenue from the Electric utility operations segment.www.northwesternenergy.com
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Oct 21, 2026
Grid Enhancing Technologies
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3:48Michael KimballHOST
11 of the 31 descriptions name dynamic line rating or a line rating or capacity rating system.
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3:54Michael KimballHOST
Kit Carson Electric Cooperative, Rocky Mountain Power, the Tennessee Valley Authority, American Electric Power, Entergy, Eversource, New England Power, Northwestern Energy, Orlando Utilities Commission, Pitch Aeronautics and Public Service Company.
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4:07Michael KimballHOST
Of New Mexico, four descriptions name power flow control or stabilization hardware.
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4:12Michael KimballHOST
northwestern energy pairs advanced power flow control with dynamic line rating on a montana and wyoming transfer path at dollar 26.
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4:20Michael KimballHOST
5 million federal on dollar 53.0 million total center point energy houston electric lists an advanced transmission system stabilization device at dollar 50.0 million federal duquesne lightless stabilization devices at dollar 22.2 million federal the new york power authority lists a static synchronous compensator at the marcy site dollar 50.
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4:41Michael KimballHOST
$0 million federal on $270.0 million total.
9 MINS LATER
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13:43Michael KimballHOST
Utility operators apply the same discipline to a rating above the static rating, so a sensor startup should plan to run beside a second measurement path during the first year of a deployment and should write that comparison into the acceptance test.
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13:57Michael KimballHOST
How should power flow control companies position? Power flow control companies should position beside dynamic line rating because the one project that names advanced power flow control also names dynamic line rating.
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NWPPA Morning Brief - Friday, October 16, 2026
Oct 16 · 1 Mention
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8:17speaker_1HOST
This follows the PSC's September resolution rejecting a petition from the same groups asking the Commission to recognize that obligation.
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8:25speaker_1HOST
Plaintiffs point to the PSC's approval of Northwestern Energy's recovery of costs for the 175-megawatt Yellowstone County generating station as an example of decisions they allege have increased ratepayer exposure to climate-related costs.
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8:40speaker_0HOST
The stakes here extend well beyond Montana.
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8:43speaker_0HOST
If a state court rules that a constitutional environmental provision directly governs utility rate-making, that's a precedent other state commissions in the region could face in resource planning and acquisition dockets.
MSNN Thursday, Oct 15 - 7 AM
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1:23Dennis BraggHOST
Gianforte says the connection will add thirty-eight hundred megawatts of power capacity for Montana.
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1:28Greg GianforteSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
It allows, uh, y-utilities, the co-ops, NorthWestern Energy here in Montana to buy electricity from the Midwest, uh, when it might not be available here or the price is too high here, and vice versa.
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1:41Greg GianforteSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
So we-- It's a, it's, it's really a, a, a critical link, uh, that's really gonna help with, uh, pricing stability for power.
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1:49Dennis BraggHOST
But the governor tells me the intertie will also have the added benefit of providing redundancy for Montana during emergencies, no longer depending solely on regional power feeds from the West.
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1:59Greg GianforteSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Yeah, no question.
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2:00Greg GianforteSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
I mean, because we've seen the problems they had in California and Texas because their grid was not reliable.
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2:06Dennis BraggHOST
The link will tie together three regional grid operatior-- operators, including NorthWestern Energy.
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2:11Dennis BraggHOST
A standoff in Butte ends peacefully Wednesday afternoon after SWAT officers arrested a man who had barricaded himself in a home.
MT Talks with John Jackson Thursday, Oct 15 - 8 AM
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25:12Dennis BraggCORRESPONDENT
Gianforte says the connection will add 3,800 megawatts of power capacity for Montana.
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25:17speaker_15SOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
It allows, uh, y- utilities, the co-ops, NorthWestern Energy here in Montana, to buy electricity from the Midwest, uh, when it might not be available here or the price is too high here, and vice versa.
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25:30speaker_15SOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
So we-- it's a-- it's, it's really a, a, a critical link, uh, that's really gonna help with, uh, pricing stability for power.
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25:38Dennis BraggCORRESPONDENT
The link will tie together three regional grid operator, operators, including NorthWestern Energy.
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25:43Dennis BraggCORRESPONDENT
A standoff in Butte ends peacefully Wednesday afternoon after SWAT officers arrested a man who had barricaded himself in a home.
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25:50Dennis BraggCORRESPONDENT
According to nonstop local Butte-Silver Bow law enforcement took 41-year-old Keith Gallagher into custody on Reynolds Avenue.
Thursday, Oct 15
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1:57Dennis BraggHOST
If you're heading out near the Missouri River in Great Falls, keep in mind water levels will be low through this next week.
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2:02Dennis BraggHOST
According to reporting from The Electric, Northwestern Energy is drawing down Rainbow Reservoir through October twenty-third to allow dam inspections and park maintenance at Giant Spring State Park.
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2:12Dennis BraggHOST
The Rainbow Dam boat launch is going to be closed, and officials urge everyone to keep people and pets out of the exposed riverbed due to dangerous deep mud and shifting currents.
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2:21Dennis BraggHOST
This is the Montana State News Network.
MSNN Thursday, Oct 15 - 6 AM
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42:59Dennis BraggCORRESPONDENT
If you're heading out near the Missouri River in Great Falls, keep in mind water levels will remain unusually low through next week.
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43:06Dennis BraggCORRESPONDENT
According to reporting from the Electric, Northwestern Energy is drawing down Rainbow Reservoir through October twenty-third to allow dam inspections and park maintenance at Giant Spring State Park.
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43:16Dennis BraggCORRESPONDENT
The Rainbow Dam boat launch is closed, and officials urge everyone to keep people and pets out of the exposed riverbed due to dangerous deep mud and shifting currents.
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43:24Dennis BraggCORRESPONDENT
Meanwhile, utility crews wrapped up work yesterday, purging an out-of-service natural gas line along Ninth Street in Great Falls.
The Road to November: Raising Leaders Who Stand for Truth with Katie Fruits
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10:00Katie FruitsGUEST
... of their commodities.
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10:01Katie FruitsGUEST
And so we're seeing that especially with, like, uh, we've got NorthWestern Energy as the primary, uh, power company in the state, and so they've had to up their rates, and a lot of people are upset about that.
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10:12Katie FruitsGUEST
But what they don't necessarily see is what all goes in the background of that.
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10:18Heidi St. JohnHOST
Hey, guys.
Ep. 371 - Full Review: Cashion Element Z2 Rods (Plus: The Big Minn Kota News, Mono Backing, CRAZY Tournament Payouts, And More!)
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6:58Andrew HayesHOST
This guy's name is Brian Bird.
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7:01Andrew HayesHOST
He's the CEO of Northwestern Energy Group down in Texas.
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7:05Andrew HayesHOST
And if you do some research, you can find online that Brian's salary looks like it's somewhere in the neighborhood of $5 million a year.
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7:12Andrew HayesHOST
And it looks like a lot of that is probably in stocks and options and stuff like that.
PUC candidates talk data centers and affordability in utility pricing
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7:32Lori WalshHOST
Here is an excerpt from our conversation.
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7:35Frank KloucekGUEST
There's been a huge rate increase proposals coming out, and it goes back now Northwestern Public Service and, uh, uh, Black Hills Power and Light merged, uh, so far in South Dakota.
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7:48Frank KloucekGUEST
The final hurdle is Montana has to approve it.
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7:51Frank KloucekGUEST
All the other states have.
Episode #94
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8:48MattHOST
When there's a little bit of fire to them, it means we're figuring some stuff out.
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8:53MattHOST
Also, the Northwestern Energy handoff with the BIM model.
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8:58MattHOST
That was kind of a highlight to me.
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9:00MattHOST
It was cool to even listen to what Dave's feedback was
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