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Stillwater Wind LLC

Wind power plant in Montana, United States of America. Approximate location 45.8658, -109.4766.

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Stillwater Wind LLC is a 80 MW wind power plant in Montana, United States of America. It is operated by Pattern Operators LP. Based on reported annual generation of 258 GWh, it can supply roughly 73,571 homes. It ranks #2246 of 9,833 United States of America power plants by installed capacity. Commissioned in 2018, it is around 8 years old — recently built. As a non-combustion source, it has no direct CO₂ emissions from generation. In context, wind supplies about 10.3% of United States of America's electricity; the national grid averages 384 gCO₂/kWh (43.0% low-carbon) (2025).

80MW installed capacity
258GWh reported / yr
73,571homes powered
2018commissioned (~8 yrs)

Plant data: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0), id USA0061858.

Reported generation trend

2018: 70 GWh20182019: 258 GWh2019258 GWh

Annual generation (GWh), WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0).

Owner

Operated by Pattern Operators LP. All plants by this company →

Local climate & thermal context

This wind plant converts the kinetic energy of wind into electricity through turbine rotors. It sits in a cold semi-arid steppe climate (Köppen BSk) — Northern Hemisphere, latitude 45.9°N — which shapes how much energy it can produce and how its output varies through the year.

7.8°Cannual mean temp
3,860heating degree-days (base 18°C)
154cooling degree-days (base 18°C)
1,267 melevation

Monthly mean temperature

J: -4 °CJF: -1 °CFM: 2 °CMA: 7 °CAM: 12 °CMJ: 17 °CJJ: 21 °CJA: 20 °CAS: 14 °CSO: 8 °CON: 1 °CND: -4 °CD21 °C

Heating degree-days here run 57% above the median power plant in this dataset — a proxy for how much extra energy heated equipment must replace through its surfaces in winter.

Climate heat-demand index: 82/100 — this site sits in the top third of the power plants we cover by heating degree-days.

In colder climates, uninsulated hot equipment (boilers, turbines, valves, steam lines) loses proportionally more heat to ambient air — exactly the loss Inzonex modular insulation is designed to cut.

Climate normals: WorldClim 2.1 (1970–2000 monthly normals, 10 arc-min, CC BY 4.0); zone: Köppen-Geiger world climate classification (Kottek et al. 2006, 0.5° grid). Degree-days & heat-demand index computed by PowerAtlas — a modelled heat-demand proxy, not a measured site figure.

How it compares & nearby plants

The #532 largest wind power plant of 1139 in United States of America by capacity.

United States of America has 1139 wind power plants in this dataset, together about 104,477 MW of capacity.

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Location

Coordinates 45.8658, -109.4766 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.

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