Organization
Basin Electric’s core business is generating and transmitting wholesale bulk electric power to customers, primarily to our member rural electric systems, which are located in nine states.
Data updated March 2022.
Basin Electric’s core business is generating and transmitting wholesale bulk electric power to customers, primarily to our member rural electric systems, which are located in nine states.
Basin Electric is one of the few utilities that supply electricity on both sides of the national electric system separation.
Basin Electric's core business is generating and transmitting wholesale bulk electric power to customers, primarily to our 131 member rural electric systems, which are located in nine states: Colorado, Iowa, Minnesota, Montana, Nebraska, New Mexico, North Dakota, South Dakota, and Wyoming. Our largest subsidiary, the for-profit Dakota Gasification Company, owns and operates the Great Plains Synfuels Plant near Beulah, North Dakota, which gasifies lignite coal and captures some of the carbon dioxide emissions (CO2) and sends them to produce several value-added products.
Basin Electric will own 4,279 megawatts (MW) and operate 5,222 MW of electric generating capability by end of year 2021, of which 981 MW is for participants of the Missouri Basin Power Project (MBPP), and 80 MW is jointly owned by Basin Electric and its Class A member, Corn Belt Power Cooperative, Humboldt, Iowa. Our electric generation facilities are located in North Dakota, South Dakota, Wyoming, Montana, and Iowa. Most of Basin Electric's baseload capacity comes from coal. Peaking facilities are oil or natural gas-based.
Basin Electric's total winter season generation capability portfolio by the winter 2021/2022 season will be 7,262.7 MW. Of that, Basin Electric has purchased a total of 2,983 MW of electric generation capability, including 1,525 total MW from renewable resources of which 1,480 MW are from wind turbines, and 45 MW are waste heat energy (known as recovered energy generation - REG).
Data updated March 2022.