Western Sugar Cooperative - Billings
Coal power plant · Yellowstone County, Montana
Nameplate capacity
1.5 MW
Rank in Montana
#73
of 73 plants
In service since
2011
March 2011
Details
- Primary fuel
- Coal
- Technology
- Conventional Steam Coal
- Operator
- Western Sugar Cooperative - Billings
- County
- Yellowstone County
- Generating units
- 1
- Share of state capacity
- 0.02%
- Rank among coal plants in Montana
- #4 of 4
- EIA plant code
- 62319
Generating units
| Unit | Technology | Nameplate | Summer | Online | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Conventional Steam Coal | 1.5 MW | 1.5 MW | 2011 | 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
| Two Dot Wind Broadview East LLC | Wind | 1.8 MW |
| Phillips 66 Billings Refinery | Natural gas | 1.6 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 1.5 MW solar plant and a 1.5 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