Hungry Horse

OperatingHydro

Ranked #3 of 23 Hydro plants in MT#55 of 1454 nationally

428 MW Hydro operating in Flathead, MT — Bonneville Power Administration

EIAGEMWD

428 MW

Nameplate Capacity

Generators

units

Conventional Hydroelectric

Technology

1952

Operating Since

Location

Coordinates

48.3415, -114.0144

County

Flathead, MT

Nearby Plants

Stoltze CoGen1
Wood Waste2.8 MW · 17.5 km
Flathead Landfill to Gas Energy Facility
Landfill Gas3.2 MW · 24.4 km

Ownership & Operator

Owner data does not fully agree across sources.

EIA typically reports the operating utility, while GEM resolves to the financial owner or parent corporation. Both can be correct.

Field	EIA	GEM	Wikidata
Operator	U S Bureau of Reclamation	US Bureau of Reclamation	—
Owner(s)	U S Bureau of Reclamation	US Bureau of Reclamation [100%]	—
Status	Operating	operating	—

Ownership Chain

GEM identifies the owner as US Bureau of Reclamation [100%]

This entity is not yet in the GEM ownership database — chain unavailable.

About

Hungry Horse Dam is an arch dam in the Western United States, on the South Fork Flathead River in the Rocky Mountains of northwest Montana. It is located in Flathead National Forest in Flathead County, about fifteen miles (24 km) south of the west entrance to Glacier National Park, nine miles (14 km) southeast of Columbia Falls, and twenty miles (32 km) northeast of Kalispell. The Hungry Horse project, dam, and powerplant are operated by the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation. The entrance road leading to the dam is located in Hungry Horse.

Read more on Wikipedia

Hungry Horse is a hydroelectric power plant located in Flathead County, Montana. The plant, owned and operated by the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, began operating in 1952. It has a total capacity of 428 MW, distributed across four generators. The plant utilizes conventional hydroelectric technology with water as its primary fuel source.

In the most recent year of reported data, Hungry Horse generated 730,341 MWh of electricity, achieving a capacity factor of 19.4%. The plant operates within the Bonneville Power Administration balancing authority and the Western Electricity Coordinating Council (WECC) NERC region. Hungry Horse is the third-largest hydroelectric plant in Montana out of six such plants, and ranks 55th nationally out of 194 hydroelectric plants.

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Engineering & Generators

Grid Context

NERC Region

WECC

Balancing Authority

Bonneville Power Administration

Grid Voltage

230 kV

Regulatory Status

Entity Type

Federal

Sector

Electric Utility

Generation

59.5K MWh

Latest Month

730.3K MWh

Annual Generation

19.4%

Capacity Factor

Jan 2022 – Dec 2024

Financial Data

No financial data available for this plant.

Pricing & Market Data

This plant is outside organized wholesale electricity markets (ISOs/RTOs). Nodal pricing data is not available.

News & Articles (10)Beta

Industry·other

Montanans want more solar and gas, are less interested in new coal plants

The survey results come as elected officials and Montana's largest utility company contemplate the future of Colstrip, the coal plant that...

Colstrip (other)

Fairfield Sun Times·1 weeks ago

Hazards·ice storm

Hungry Horse community shows resilience during windstorm

UPDATE: December 17 at 10:45 p.m.. After a challenging day marked by a power outage from a tree falling into a power line, the community of Hungry Horse is...

Hungry Horse (other)

NonStop Local Billings·3 months ago