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Big Horn County, Montana

Big Horn County, Montana has 7 power projects in the FieldProspects database: 6 operating plants totaling 396.9 MW and 1 planned project totaling 300 MW. No data center record lists the county. Solar leads with 303 MW across 2 projects.

Data as of Grid region: WAPA Upper Great Plains WestRefreshed monthly
7
power projects, planned and operating
300MW
planned generation, 1 project
396.9MW
operating generation, 6 projects
0
planned projects past their listed in-service date
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Big Horn County and its neighbors

Counties shaded by data center MW on record, planned to operating. 2 of its 5 neighboring counties have pages of their own. The rest are in the member database.

Yellowstone 500 MW Powder River Treasure Rosebud no data centers Big Horn no data centers Carbon
no data center MWunder 100 MW100 to 1,000 MW1,000 to 5,000 MW5,000 to 15,000 MW15,000 MW or more no page yet

Data center records planned, under construction and operating, data as of October 8, 2026.Hover a county for its numbers

Headline finding
76%

of the county's operating generation is in the queue as new capacity: 300 MW planned across 1 project against 396.9 MW operating.

Operating generation396.9 MW
Planned generation300 MW

Technology mix

7 projects, 696.9 MW planned and operating

Solar303 MW2 projects, 43%
Hydro278.2 MW4 projects, 40%
Coal115.7 MW1 project, 17%
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Power generation in the county

6 plants operate inside Big Horn County, 396.9 MW. The queue adds 300 MW across 1 project.

Figure 1

Operating and planned generation by technology

MW in Big Horn County

OperatingPlanned
SolarOperating 3 MW 1 project
SolarPlanned 300 MW 1 project
HydroOperating 278.2 MW 4 projects
CoalOperating 115.7 MW 1 project
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TechnologyStatusProjectsMW
SolarOperating13
SolarPlanned1300
HydroOperating4278.2
CoalOperating1115.7
Operating: 396.9 MW. Planned: 300 MW. If every planned project is built, county generation would reach 696.9 MW.
Source. FieldProspects database: ISO/RTO interconnection queues, EIA-860M and public data center filings, data as of October 8, 2026.
Figure 2

Planned generation by listed in-service year

MW. Years before 2026 are past due.

Past dueDue 2026 or later
0100200300 300 2028
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YearPlanned projectsMW
20281300
No planned project is past its listed year

Big Horn County against its neighbors

Yellowstone County has the most data center MW among the neighbors, 500 MW. 1 of the 2 have more generation operating than data center MW on record.

CountyData center recordsData center MWOperating generation MWPlanned generation MWData center MW per MW operating
Yellowstone County 1
500
360
50 1.4x
Rosebud County 0
0
2,262
0 0x
Big Horn County this page 0
0
397
300 0x

Data center MW counts records planned, under construction and operating. Generation is inside the county only. Neighbors without a page have fewer than three projects on record.

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What changed since June 4, 2026

1 project in Big Horn County moved between the two snapshots. Counts and MW are below; the projects themselves are for members.

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1
added to a queue, 300 MW
0
came online, started construction or signed an interconnection agreement, 0 MW
0
cancelled, dropped or went inactive, 0 MW
0
slipped their in-service date, 0 MW

Every change in Big Horn County

Project, what changed, technology, MW and the dates that moved, for all 1 change.

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County: Big Horn County, MTSince June 4, 2026 1 change
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Every record in Big Horn County

Project name, developer, status, MW, in-service year and the developer’s contacts, for all 7 records. Filter, sort and export to Excel.

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County: Big Horn County, MTStatus: all except cancelledSort: MW, largest first 7 records
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