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Horseshoe Bend Wind Park

Wind power plant · Cascade County, Montana

Nameplate capacity
9.7 MW
Rank in Montana
#55
of 73 plants
In service since
2006
February 2006

Details

Primary fuel
Wind
Technology
Onshore Wind Turbine
Operator
Cycle Holdings, LLC
County
Cascade County
Generating units
1
Share of state capacity
0.13%
Rank among wind plants in Montana
#21 of 23
EIA plant code
56591

Generating units

Individual generating units at Horseshoe Bend Wind Park
UnitTechnologyNameplateSummerOnlineStatus
HBWPOnshore Wind Turbine9.7 MW9.7 MW2006Operating

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 9.7 MW solar plant and a 9.7 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