In a petition before the Public Service Commission, a coalition of groups working on energy, climate and social justice issues argued that hundreds of thousands of Montanans will face higher bills unless the state’s utility regulator provides stricter oversight of NorthWestern Energy, the state’s largest utility. NorthWestern has inked agreements with at least three data centers that will, if built, require every megawatt of energy the company can currently generate, and then some.
