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Deer Creek Station

The proposed Deer Creek Station is a 300-megawatt combined-cycle power plant to be located near the town of White in eastern South Dakota. The project was approved by Basin Electric's board of directors in July 2007 and is scheduled to be completed in the spring of 2012.

Construction will take about 16 months. When the plant is operational it will employ between 25 and 30 people. Gavin McCollam, Basin Electric's manager of mechanical and performance engineering, is project coordinator.

Deer Creek Station will be the first combined-cycle power plant in Basin Electric's fleet of generating units. The plant features two turbine-generator sets: one turbine fired by natural gas, while the other is driven by steam. Both of the turbines are connected to generators. The power plant will use natural gas from Basin Electric's Dakota Gasification Company via the Northern Border Pipeline, and it will be tied into existing transmission lines.

The power plant is needed to meet growing member load requirements and will serve as an intermediate power supply, which is designed to "cycle" with demand, typically running about 12 to 16 hours a day when demand for electricity is higher.

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