Gordon Butte Wind LLC
Wind power plant · Meagher County, Montana
Nameplate capacity
18 MW
Rank in Montana
#46
of 73 plants
In service since
2012
January 2012
Details
- Primary fuel
- Wind
- Technology
- Onshore Wind Turbine
- Operator
- Gordon Butte Wind LLC
- County
- Meagher County
- Generating units
- 4
- Share of state capacity
- 0.23%
- Rank among wind plants in Montana
- #17 of 23
- EIA plant code
- 57748
Generating units
| Unit | Technology | Nameplate | Summer | Online | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| GBW | Onshore Wind Turbine | 9.6 MW | 9.6 MW | 2012 | Operating |
| DAW | Onshore Wind Turbine | 2.7 MW | 2.7 MW | 2018 | Operating |
| OSR | Onshore Wind Turbine | 2.7 MW | 2.7 MW | 2018 | Operating |
| SOR | Onshore Wind Turbine | 2.7 MW | 2.7 MW | 2018 | 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
| Miles City GT | Natural gas | 23 MW |
| Lewis & Clark | Natural gas | 19 MW |
| Hauser | Hydro | 17 MW |
| Madison Dam | Hydro | 16 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 18 MW solar plant and a 18 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