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Larson joins the Basin Electric Board of Directors

  • 18 November 2024
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Nuclear Energy – Basin Electric’s Team Evaluates

  • 23 October 2024
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RUS announces Basin Electric a finalist for New ERA funding

  • 06 September 2024

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Larson joins the Basin Electric Board of Directors

  • 18 November 2024

Anthony Larson has been elected to serve on the Basin Electric Board of Directors beginning Nov. 1, 2024, and will represent District 8, Upper...

Stay Basin! Good people, benefits, and stable future

  • Andrew Weeks
  • 11 November 2024

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

  • Andrew Weeks
  • 07 November 2024

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

  • Erin Becker
  • 29 October 2024

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

  • Jenifer Gray
  • 29 October 2024

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

  • Alison Kirsch
  • 29 October 2024

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

  • Erin Becker
  • 29 October 2024

“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

  • Kalli Senske
  • 29 October 2024

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

  • Jenifer Gray
  • 29 October 2024

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

  • Jenifer Gray
  • 29 October 2024

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

  • 23 October 2024

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

  • 23 October 2024

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

Dakota Gas restores old stormwater pond

  • 23 October 2024

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

  • 23 October 2024

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

  • Andrew Weeks
  • 09 October 2024

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

  • 25 September 2024

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

  • 25 September 2024

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

  • 25 September 2024

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

  • 12 September 2024

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

Dakota Gas experiences record production of urea and diesel exhaust fluid

  • 06 September 2024

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

New plant leaders announced at Basin Electric

  • 06 September 2024

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

  • 06 September 2024

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

  • 06 September 2024

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

  • 06 September 2024

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

  • Alison Kirsch
  • 30 August 2024

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

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