at a glance

Basin Electric Headquarters in Bismarck, North Dakota, is the administrative hub of our parent and subsidiary companies, including the offices of Dakota Gasification Company and Dakota Coal Company.

Basin Electric's core business is generating and transmitting wholesale bulk electric power to customers, primarily to our 139 member rural electric systems, which are located in nine states. Our largest subsidiary, Dakota Gasification Company, gasifies lignite coal and delivers some of the carbon dioxide emissions (CO2) to produce several value-added products.

Basin Electric Power Cooperative is a consumer-owned, regional generation and transmission (G&T) cooperative providing wholesale power to member rural electric systems in nine states. The following statistics are for end-of-year (EOY) 2025.

Corporate Profile

  • A not-for-profit generation and transmission cooperative incorporated in 1961 to provide supplemental power to a consortium of rural electric cooperatives
  • Diversified energy portfolio of dispatchable and non-dispatchable resources. Dispatchable resources have a readily available fuel supply to power their generation, whereas non-dispatchable resources rely on intermittent, renewable fuel and produce electricity when weather conditions are right.
  • Member owned by 138 member cooperative systems
  • Serves 3 million member-owners
  • Members' service territories comprise nearly 500,000 square miles in nine states
  • At end of year 2025, Basin Electric operated 5,779 megawatts (MW) of wholesale electric generating capability and had 9,035 MW of generating capacity within its resource portfolio
  • Operates 12 transmission maintenance shops or service centers across 4 states
  • Owns and/or maintains over 2,600 miles of high-voltage transmission line
  • Owns and/or maintains substation equipment in 95 locations and has equipment ownership in 20 additional locations
  • Owns and/or maintains telecommunications equipment at over 200 telecommunication sites across seven states

RESOURCE PROFILE

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: 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 owned 4,877 megawatts (MW) and operated 5,779 MW of electric generating capacity by end of year 2025, 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. 

Basin Electric's total winter season generating capacity portfolio was 9,035 MW at the end of 2025. Basin Electric’s generation capacity portfolio includes 5,214 MW of dispatchable (coal, natural gas, hydro), 3,821 MW of non-dispatchable (wind, solar, recovered energy generation – REG) resources, with the balance consisting of capacity-only purchases.

Data updated April 2026.

Basin Electric's diversified winter generating capacity portfolio

This reflects our ability to serve our customers even on the coldest days.

  • Generating capacity chart indicates only generation owned by Basin Electric or purchased power longer than three years
  • Maximum generating capacity in megawatts (MW)

 

Committed Generation Projects 2025 and beyond

Initial
year of production		 Name Units Generating capacity (megawatts) Owner/Seller
2030 Bison Generation Station 2 1490 MW Basin Electric
Total 1,490 MW

Transmission owned and maintained

Interconnection Transmission Tariff Basin Electric Owned (Miles) Basin Electric Maintained (Miles)
Eastern Southwest Power Pool*

2,076

 2,146
Non-tariff facilities 32 57
Western Common Use System 279 348
BEPW** 180 63
Non-tariff facilities 5 16
Total miles 2,571 2,630
*Basin Electric includes its entitlement share over the Missouri Basin Power Project transmission facilities located in the Eastern Interconnection in the Southwest Power Pool transmission tariff.
**The Basin Electric Power Cooperative West Side Transmission System (BEPW) represents Basin Electric's entitlement share over the Missouri Basin Power Project transmission facilities located in the Western Interconnection.

 Subsidiaries