In the News: NorthWestern Energy Responds to Criticisms of Draft Integrated Resource Plan - NewsData

Renewable Northwest's Director of Montana and Idaho, Kyle Unruh, was recently quoted in a NewsData article covering public feedback on NorthWestern Energy’s draft 2026 Montana Integrated Resource Plan. Kyle noted that a portfolio heavy on fossil fuels “will result in a generation stack with a higher marginal operating cost,” and warned that “due to a falling average cost of power on the market from clean resources being deployed at scale, there’s an economic risk to building thermal resources in Montana’s system.”