NorthWestern wind energy ads assailed

NorthWestern Energy's ad campaign promoting wind energy and the transmission line the company wants to build to ship that power out of state is not sitting well with people who have been trying to sell wind energy to NorthWestern.

"It's ironic how they are promoting the state as a wind farm — but how much wind have they purchased from wind farm producers in Montana?"

Asked Bret Kenfield, who has been trying to arrange a cont ra c t to s e l l powe r to NorthWestern from a 20-megawatt project he'd like to build in north-central Montana.

In the past five years, NorthWestern has arranged virtuall...