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Three winters after NorthWestern gained tools to manage high energy prices, records show it hasn’t pulled the trigger. What NorthWestern Energy has done is use the sticker shock of high market prices during periods of bitter cold as a selling point for power plants fueled by coal and natural gas, that increasingly face regulatory challenges and consumer disapproval. Including during the polar vortex

Three winters after NorthWestern gained tools to manage high energy prices, records show it hasn’t pulled the trigger. What NorthWestern Energy has done is use the sticker shock of high market prices during periods of bitter cold as a selling point for power plants fueled by coal and natural gas, that increasingly face regulatory challenges and consumer disapproval. Including during the polar vortex

NWE earnings call for the period ending September 30, 2021.

The automatic shutdown of turbines during Montana’s windstorm last week prove the need to maintain multiple energy sources to prevent consumers from experiencing “higher costs, lower reliability and grid instability,”