Beaver Creek Wind Facility
Wind power plant · Stillwater County, Montana
Nameplate capacity
248 MW
Rank in Montana
#7
of 73 plants
In service since
2025
August 2025
Details
- Primary fuel
- Wind
- Technology
- Onshore Wind Turbine
- Operator
- Puget Sound Energy Inc
- County
- Stillwater County
- Generating units
- 4
- Share of state capacity
- 3.24%
- Rank among wind plants in Montana
- #2 of 23
- EIA plant code
- 65019
Generating units
| Unit | Technology | Nameplate | Summer | Online | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BCW1 | Onshore Wind Turbine | 62 MW | 17 MW | 2025 | Operating |
| BCW2 | Onshore Wind Turbine | 62 MW | 17 MW | 2025 | Operating |
| BCW3 | Onshore Wind Turbine | 62 MW | 17 MW | 2025 | Operating |
| BCW4 | Onshore Wind Turbine | 62 MW | 17 MW | 2025 | Operating |
Nameplate is the maximum rated output; summer capacity is what the unit can reliably deliver on a hot day, which is typically lower.
Similarly sized plants in Montana
| Clearwater Wind I | Wind | 366 MW |
| Yellowtail | Hydro | 278 MW |
| Pryor Mountain Wind | Wind | 240 MW |
| Selis Ksanka Qlispe | Hydro | 228 MW |
About this data
From EIA’s inventory of operable generators, May 2026 release. Capacity is nameplate — the maximum rated output of the equipment, not what the plant actually generates over a year, which depends on how often it runs. A 248 MW solar plant and a 248 MW nuclear plant have the same entry here and produce very different amounts of electricity.
“In service since” is the earliest in-service date among the units still listed, so a site rebuilt around newer equipment can read as younger than the site itself. All Montana power plants · What Montana actually generates