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MBPP Joint Participant

The Missouri Basin Power Project (Project) is a group of six regional, consumer-owned energy organizations that built the Laramie River Station (LRS) in Wheatland, WY. Project members include:

Basin Electric Power Cooperative, Bismarck, ND, a wholesale power supplier for regional power supply cooperatives, provides power to distribution cooperatives in nine states of the Missouri Basin. Basin Electric was construction manager for the Project and is now Operating Agent of Laramie River Station. Ownership interest: 42.27 percent.

Tri-State Generation & Transmission Association Inc., Denver, CO, a wholesale power supplier owned by the 44 electric cooperatives that it serves. Tri-State generates and transports electricity to its member systems throughout a 250,000 square-mile service territory across Colorado, Nebraska, New Mexico and Wyoming. Ownership interest: 24.13 percent.

The Western Minnesota Municipal Power Agency, Ortonville, MN, a group of municipally owned electric systems in Minnesota which are represented in the Project by the Missouri River Energy Services, Sioux Falls, SD. Ownership interest: 16.47 percent.

Lincoln Electric System, Lincoln, NE, the largest municipally owned electric system in the Missouri Basin. Ownership interest: 12.76 percent.

Heartland Consumers Power District, Madison, SD, a public power district serving South Dakota agencies and municipal electric systems in South Dakota, Iowa and western Minnesota. Ownership interest: 3.00 percent.

Wyoming Municipal Power Agency, Lusk, WY, a group of municipally owned electric systems organized to develop an additional power supply source above their present allocations from the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation. Ownership interest: 1.3 percent.