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Big Timber Wind Farm

Wind power plant · Sweet Grass County, Montana

Nameplate capacity
25 MW
Rank in Montana
#42
of 73 plants
In service since
2018
February 2018

Details

Primary fuel
Wind
Technology
Onshore Wind Turbine
Operator
RWE Clean Energy
County
Sweet Grass County
Generating units
1
Share of state capacity
0.33%
Rank among wind plants in Montana
#15 of 23
EIA plant code
61155

Generating units

Individual generating units at Big Timber Wind Farm
UnitTechnologyNameplateSummerOnlineStatus
BT-MTOnshore Wind Turbine25 MW25 MW2018Operating

Nameplate is the maximum rated output; summer capacity is what the unit can reliably deliver on a hot day, which is typically lower.

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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 25 MW solar plant and a 25 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