Department of Commerce Montana

Bipartisan Infrastructure Law - North Plains Connector Interregional Innovation (NPCII) the Objectives of North Plains Connector Interregional Innovation (NPCII) Project Include: Developing and Constructing North Plains Connector (NPC), a Transformational, Large-scale Interregional Connection Between the Western Electricity Coordinating Council (wecc), Midcontinent Independent System Operator (miso), and the Southwest Power Pool (SPP) That Will Improve the Resiliency and Reliability of the U.s. Electric Grid Using Innovative High Voltage Direct Current (HVDC) Voltage Source Converter (VSC) Technology, Upgrading the Colstrip Transmission System (CTS) to Allow for Power Transfer From the Colstrip Substation in Eastern Montana—to Which the North Plains Connector Intends to Interconnect—to the Northwest.

Committed

$700.0 Million

Paid to

UEI QP1EAYPHGCD6

301 South Park, Helena, MT, 59601

Department of Energy

Place

HELENA, MT, UNITED STATES

MT-02

Performance

Jan 1, 2025 → Dec 31, 2032

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Source

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Federal grant · cooperative agreement (b)

Department of Energy

Grid Infrastructure Deployment and Resilience to

Department of Commerce Montana

Committed

$700.0 Million

Paid to

Department of Commerce Montana

UEI QP1EAYPHGCD6

301 South Park, Helena, MT, 59601

Department of Energy

Place

HELENA, MT, UNITED STATES

MT-02

Performance

Jan 1, 2025 → Dec 31, 2032

How to read these numbers

One award, start to finish: Everything here is this single award's whole record — signed, amended, paid — not a fiscal-year slice. The by-year charts elsewhere split an award across the years it was committed; this page keeps it whole.
Committed vs. ceiling: Committed is what the government has legally promised on this award so far. Contracts can also carry a ceiling — the maximum if every option is exercised. Unspent ceiling is headroom, not money owed.
Paid out: The cash actually disbursed against this award. The gap from committed is the disbursement pipeline: promised, not yet cashed.
The ledger: Each transaction is a signing event — an action that created or changed the award, dated the day it was signed — not a payment. Negative amounts are real: money de-committed at closeout or renegotiation.
The money bar: One bar, the award’s whole arithmetic: paid out, then committed, not yet paid, then .

Source

This award on USAspending.gov ↗