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The next step for NextGen - April 9, 2008
On Feb. 13, Basin Electric’s directors voted to select a Selby, SD, site as the “owner’s preferred” site for the cooperative’s proposed base-load power plant. The project, called NextGen, would help meet the membership’s growing demand for electricity. Selby is one of four South Dakota sites being evaluated in the federally mandated environmental assessment process.

The Carbon Conundrum, Part II - April 9, 2008
Consumers Beware: There’s a new Trojan horse in town. It’s called the Lieberman-Warner Climate Security Act and it’s designed to decrease carbon dioxide emissions, but at what cost? If passed by Congress and signed into law, Mike Eggl, Basin Electric senior vice president of External Relations and Communications, says the Lieberman-Warner bill could hurt Americans three-fold: the economy will suffer, domestic energy security will decline futher and some consumers could see their electric bills triple.

Fields of steel... Basin Electric plants a new crop - February 5, 2008
Basin Electric Power Cooperative is setting a milestone – to build the largest cooperative owned and operated wind project in the country. And the local co-ops will help make it happen. Wayne Backman made the announcement at the Cooperative’s 2007 annual meeting. The wind project is being built under Basin Electric’s newest proposed subsidiary, PrairieWinds ND1 Inc. Construction at a site near Minot will start in early summer of 2009.

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