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Nuclear Energy – Basin Electric’s Team Evaluates

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RUS announces Basin Electric a finalist for New ERA funding

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Dakota Gas and Antelope Valley Station celebrate 40 years of service

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Stay Basin! Good people, benefits, and stable future

This past June marked 10 years that Lindsey Schutt, of Hazen, North Dakota, began her career with Basin Electric, where she works as an...

Basin Electric hosts energy audit training

Forty-three members representing co-ops from all nine states in Basin Electric’s service territory attended energy audit training on Oct. 29-30 at...

Reliability to power western North Dakota

A new transmission line is on its way to completion in western North Dakota, allowing for more electricity to be added to the grid in a few short...

1 million metric tons of co2 captured and sequestered at Dakota Gas

The Great Plains Synfuels Plant recently became home to the largest geologic sequestration project in the world.

The Nordlund family brings a taste of home to PGS Phase IV

Keith Nordlund, operator technician at Basin Electric’s Pioneer Generation Station, and his family are the proud owners of Nordlund Family Ranch...

How We Serve: Auxilary Operating Team

“I take pride in the fact that while most of the world is sleeping or going about their daily business, the work we do in our division, in addition...

Investing for the future at the 2024 Annual Meeting

Held August 13-15, the theme for the 63rd Annual Meeting was “Investing for the Future,” which highlights the many ways the cooperative is...

40 years and counting: celebrating decades of service

On August 1, 1984, Unit 1 at Antelope Valley Station began commercial operation, and on July 28, 1984, natural gas made synthetically from lignite...

Eye'll be seeing you

The team at Eye Love Spearfish, a member of Butte Electric Cooperative, a Basin Electric Class C member, knows all about eyes. “We’re very thankful...

Basin Electric featured in nation's top 100 co-ops list

Basin Electric was ranked among the nation’s top cooperatives by the National Cooperative Bank in its annual NCB Co-op 100® list, which names the...

Nuclear Energy – Basin Electric’s Team Evaluates

Basin Electric’s Horizons Committee, a cross departmental team tasked with researching emerging technologies, is actively monitoring the...

Dakota Gas restores old stormwater pond

Dakota Gas recently restored a stormwater pond that hadn’t been used for at least two decades. The newly restored pond – Pond D – makes it the...

Basin Electric repairs wind turbine blade

A major blade repair was completed this year at one of Basin Electric’s wind projects.

Eagle nest monitoring important work for Basin Electric’s environmental crew

If a raptor or other bird connects with a transmission line, depending on the size, they may be electrocuted and/or damage the transmission line....

Wyoming ITC at Basin Electric's Dry Fork Station awarded funding

A carbon capture pilot project at the Wyoming Integrated Test Center near Dry Fork Station in Gillette, Wyoming, has been awarded nearly $5 million...

Basin Electric's Menoken TSM hosts safety training

A tabletop exercise was completed at the Menoken Transmission System Maintenance outpost to prepare the team in case an active shooter event should...

Basin Electric crews restore transmission line after fire damage

A lightning strike northeast of Sheridan, Wyoming, ignited the Badger Creek wildfire, which rapidly spread north and across Basin Electric’s Dry...

Basin Electric announces rate increase

The Basin Electric board of directors has authorized a Class A rate increase.

Dakota Gas experiences record production of urea and diesel exhaust fluid

Urea and diesel exhaust fluid production in June surmounted previous production records.

New plant leaders announced at Basin Electric

Two new plant managers have been announced for Dry Fork Station and Antelope Valley Station/Leland Olds Station.

Basin Electric hits new summer member billing peak in July

Basin Electric set a new summer member billing peak in July of 4,764 megawatts (MW), surpassing the previous summer billing peak that occurred in...

RUS announces Basin Electric a finalist for New ERA funding

The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) Rural Utilities Service (RUS) recently announced Basin Electric as a Category 1 finalist for...

Dale Johnson Receives PCOR Partnership Pioneer Award

Dale Johnson, senior vice president and plant manager at Dakota Gasification Company, was awarded the Plains CO2 Reduction (PCOR) Partnership...

Basin Electric celebrates National Intern Day

Interns contribute to our workforce in countless ways. On July 25, our past and present interns reflected on their experiences at Basin Electric.

Basin Electric wraps up 2024 summer internship program

As our summer interns head back to the classroom, they reflect on their experience working for Basin Electric.

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