Montana

Key Montana contacts

• Montana Public Service Commission
• Montana Department of Environmental Quality
• Montana Department of Natural Resources and Conservation
• Montana Department of Agriculture
• Northwest Power and Conservation Council

Utilities and Rates

Utilities and rates

Montana has 38 retail utility providers:

• 30 cooperatives
• 1 publicly owned (PUD’s)
• 4 investor-owned (IOU’s)
• 2 federal
• 1 power marketer

Industrial cost range: 3.41 to 12.21 ¢/kWh

Commercial cost range: 1.84 – 110.0 ¢/kWh

11 utilities of 38 offers a “green” pricing program

CHP Policy and Incentives Development

CHP Policy & Incentives

Clean energy installations in Montana

Sites with clean energy: 19

Total installed megawatts: 113.21

Sample companies and facilities using clean energy:

Industrial:

• Young Electric
• Exxon Refinery
• Eagle Stud Mill, Inc.
• Smurfit-Stone Container Kraft Liner Board Mill
• Holly Sugar Corporation (Sidney Sugar Factory)

Institutional:

• City of Billings Wastewater Treatment Plant
• Billings Deaconess Hospital
• Army National Guard Reserve Center
• Basin Electric Compressor Station
• Montana State University

Northwest CEAC contacts