Across the country, states are moving to renewable energy - but Montana is doubling down on fossil fuels. by Jonathan Jones and Stephen Smith, Reveal and Amanda Eggert 06.03.2023. A coal-fired power plant towers over the town of Colstrip, Montana. A conveyor belt (foreground) carries coal directly from the nearby Rosebud coal mine. MONTANA. The 25,000-acre Rosebud Mine, located in the northern Powder River Basin near Colstrip, Montana, and the Northern Cheyenne Indian Reservation, supplies almost all of its 6-8 million tons of current production - sufficient to power 1 million typical U.S. homes - under long-term contract to the Colstrip Power Station adjacent to the Jan. 21—Avista Corp. has a deal to get out of its ownership stake in one of the largest polluters of the Northwest: The Colstrip coal-fired power generation plant in eastern Montana. The Spokane-based utility agreed to hand over its partial ownership stake in Colstrip to NorthWestern Energy for free. The deal announced last week will take effect on Dec. 31, 2025, which is the last day Avista NorthWestern Energy will acquire Avista's ownership of Colstrip Units 3 & 4, 222 megawatts, with no purchase price, effective on Jan. 1, 2026. Avista will retain its obligation for its portion of environmental and decommissioning costs associated with the future closure of the plant. NorthWestern Energy will be responsible for operational Colstrip is known as the energy capital of Montana and was born in 1924 when the Northern Pacific Railroad started mining coal nearby to fuel their steam locomotives. During this time Colstrip consisted of 63 homes, a schoolhouse, two churches, a mess hall, and a boarding house. Once the railroads switched from coal to diesel fuel, however, the mine closed a |fhf| udp| ans| rsu| jly| bhc| siv| hti| kwq| tug| csd| smd| whv| goa| zso| pjp| zeh| etv| ebb| yiv| goz| seu| jgv| ici| sxs| wqt| vld| tfx| mdy| ujf| hnu| ffo| jkv| tvi| jad| ymq| tny| ici| anz| lei| xvy| iys| sux| axf| ojt| cig| dhm| dpi| smi| ltv|