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Musselshell Wind Project
Power plant · Wind
Key facts
Power plant · Windran 27% of 2025 Operating- Capacity
- Capacity: sourceEIA-860M · Open licenseMW
- Commissioned
- 2012
- Net generation, 2025
- 23,750 MWh
- Grid
- 115 kV to NorthWestern Energy LLC - (MT) (NWMT)
- Location
- Wheatland County, Montana
- Operated by
- Musselshell Wind Project LLCSourceEIA-860M Preliminary Monthly Electric Generator Inventory
Operations
- Net generation, 2025
- 23,750
MWh - Fuel burned, 2025
- 81,035
MMBtu - Capacity factor, 2025
- 27.1
% - Heat rate, 2025
- Not stated
| Year | Net generation (MWh) | Fuel burned (MMBtu) | Capacity factor | Heat rate (Btu/kWh) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 23,750 | 81,035 | 27.1% | — |
| 2024 | 23,090 | 78,784 | 26.3% | — |
| 2023 | 19,300 | 65,853 | 22.0% | — |
| 2022 | 28,790 | 98,233 | 32.9% | — |
| 2021 | 23,956 | 211,867 | 27.4% | — |
| 2020 | 26,055 | 228,424 | 29.7% | — |
| 2019 | 13,192 | 117,475 | 15.1% | — |
| 2018 | 18,209 | 165,773 | 20.8% | — |
| 2017 | 25,300 | 233,088 | 28.9% | — |
| 2016 | 24,727 | 228,278 | 28.1% | — |
| 2015 | 24,054 | 224,159 | 27.5% | — |
| 2014 | 26,447 | 251,511 | 30.2% | — |
| 2013 | 24,170 | 230,605 | 27.6% | — |
| 2012 (1 of 12 months) | 119 | 1,132 | — | — |
How these are worked out
Net generation and fuel burned are the monthly figures EIA publishes in its bulk electricity file, from the plant's Form 923 reports; a year is the sum of its months. Capacity factor is a full year's net generation over today's nameplate capacity times the hours in that year (8,784 in a leap year), so a plant uprated or partly retired since reads against its current size; heat rate is fuel burned over net generation, for plants that burn fuel. A year with fewer than twelve months stated has no capacity factor, and a value outside the plausible range is left blank rather than shown. By month, the charts apply the same rules to each month's own hours and fuel.