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NorthWestern Energy Group, Inc.

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

Michael KimballHOST
3:48
11 of the 31 descriptions name dynamic line rating or a line rating or capacity rating system.
Michael KimballHOST
3:54
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.
Michael KimballHOST
4:07
Of New Mexico, four descriptions name power flow control or stabilization hardware.
Michael KimballHOST
4:12
northwestern energy pairs advanced power flow control with dynamic line rating on a montana and wyoming transfer path at dollar 26.
Michael KimballHOST
4:20
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.
Michael KimballHOST
4:41
$0 million federal on $270.0 million total.

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Michael KimballHOST
13:43
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.
Michael KimballHOST
13:57
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

speaker_1HOST
8:17
This follows the PSC's September resolution rejecting a petition from the same groups asking the Commission to recognize that obligation.
speaker_1HOST
8:25
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.
speaker_0HOST
8:40
The stakes here extend well beyond Montana.
speaker_0HOST
8:43
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.
Dennis BraggHOST
1:23
Gianforte says the connection will add thirty-eight hundred megawatts of power capacity for Montana.
Greg GianforteSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
1:28
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.
Greg GianforteSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
1:41
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.
Dennis BraggHOST
1:49
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.
Greg GianforteSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
1:59
Yeah, no question.
Greg GianforteSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
2:00
I mean, because we've seen the problems they had in California and Texas because their grid was not reliable.
Dennis BraggHOST
2:06
The link will tie together three regional grid operatior-- operators, including NorthWestern Energy.
Dennis BraggHOST
2:11
A standoff in Butte ends peacefully Wednesday afternoon after SWAT officers arrested a man who had barricaded himself in a home.
Dennis BraggCORRESPONDENT
25:12
Gianforte says the connection will add 3,800 megawatts of power capacity for Montana.
speaker_15SOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
25:17
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.
speaker_15SOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
25:30
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.
Dennis BraggCORRESPONDENT
25:38
The link will tie together three regional grid operator, operators, including NorthWestern Energy.
Dennis BraggCORRESPONDENT
25:43
A standoff in Butte ends peacefully Wednesday afternoon after SWAT officers arrested a man who had barricaded himself in a home.
Dennis BraggCORRESPONDENT
25:50
According to nonstop local Butte-Silver Bow law enforcement took 41-year-old Keith Gallagher into custody on Reynolds Avenue.
Dennis BraggHOST
1:57
If you're heading out near the Missouri River in Great Falls, keep in mind water levels will be low through this next week.
Dennis BraggHOST
2:02
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.
Dennis BraggHOST
2:12
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.
Dennis BraggHOST
2:21
This is the Montana State News Network.
Dennis BraggCORRESPONDENT
42:59
If you're heading out near the Missouri River in Great Falls, keep in mind water levels will remain unusually low through next week.
Dennis BraggCORRESPONDENT
43:06
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.
Dennis BraggCORRESPONDENT
43:16
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.
Dennis BraggCORRESPONDENT
43:24
Meanwhile, utility crews wrapped up work yesterday, purging an out-of-service natural gas line along Ninth Street in Great Falls.
Katie FruitsGUEST
10:00
... of their commodities.
Katie FruitsGUEST
10:01
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.
Katie FruitsGUEST
10:12
But what they don't necessarily see is what all goes in the background of that.
Heidi St. JohnHOST
10:18
Hey, guys.
Andrew HayesHOST
6:58
This guy's name is Brian Bird.
Andrew HayesHOST
7:01
He's the CEO of Northwestern Energy Group down in Texas.
Andrew HayesHOST
7:05
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.
Andrew HayesHOST
7:12
And it looks like a lot of that is probably in stocks and options and stuff like that.
Lori WalshHOST
7:32
Here is an excerpt from our conversation.
Frank KloucekGUEST
7:35
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.
Frank KloucekGUEST
7:48
The final hurdle is Montana has to approve it.
Frank KloucekGUEST
7:51
All the other states have.
MattHOST
8:48
When there's a little bit of fire to them, it means we're figuring some stuff out.
MattHOST
8:53
Also, the Northwestern Energy handoff with the BIM model.
MattHOST
8:58
That was kind of a highlight to me.
MattHOST
9:00
It was cool to even listen to what Dave's feedback was

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