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ONSHORE WIND · MISORed Butte Wind
Red Butte Wind is a 457 MW onshore wind request in interconnection study in the MISO interconnection queue, in Morton County, North Dakota, connecting to Great River Energy (GRE).
Queue statusIn planning
- PlanningQueued Aug 2025 (current stage)
- Consented (not yet reached)
- Construction (not yet reached)
- OperatingTarget Feb 2028 (not yet reached)
- Closed (not yet reached)
Studies assess what grid upgrades the project would need and who pays for them. A signed interconnection agreement is the main step before construction.
Request details
- Queue ID
- E0027
- Grid region
- MISO (Midcontinent)
- Utility / transmission owner
- Great River Energy (GRE)
- Developer
- Red Butte Wind, LLC
- Connection point (POI)
- Nelson Lake 230kV Substation
- Location
- Morton County, North Dakota
- Technology
- Wind: 457 MW
- Total requested
- 457 MW
- Service type
- Network resource (NRIS)
- Study phase
- Request Status: Active; Post GIA Status: Not started
- Queue status
- Active
- Entered queue
- 6 August 2025
- Proposed online date
- February 2028
Location
Marker shows the centre of Morton County; the queue data does not give exact sites.
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Other requests in Morton County
- Onshore wind project J2502, Morton CountyOnshore wind · 150 MW · in study
- Replace 103.1 MW of Heskett Units 1 & 2 with One (1) General Electric synchronous combustion turbine; Heskett 1 & 2Gas · 103 MW · in study
- Onshore wind project J2157, Morton CountyOnshore wind · 100 MW · in study
- Onshore wind project J3070, Morton CountyOnshore wind · 100 MW · in study
- Onshore wind project J2097, Morton CountyOnshore wind · 100 MW · in study
- Onshore wind project GI-0926, Morton CountyOnshore wind · 110 MW · built
- Gas project J200, Morton CountyGas · 99.0 MW · built
- Other project G723, Morton CountyOther · 10.0 MW · built
- Other project GI-0315, Morton CountyOther · 8.0 MW · built
- Other project J110, Morton CountyOther · 7.5 MW · built
- Onshore wind project J1893, Morton CountyOnshore wind · 500 MW · withdrawn
- Onshore wind project GI-0911, Morton CountyOnshore wind · 400 MW · withdrawn
Source: Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Queued Up, data through end of 2025, compiled from ISO/RTO and utility queues. Check the grid operator's own queue for the latest status. Report a problem