Organization
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.
Data updated April 2023.
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.
Basin Electric is one of the few utilities that supply electricity on both sides of the national electric system separation.
Basin Electric's core business is generating and transmitting wholesale bulk electric power to customers, primarily to our 141 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 4,277 megawatts (MW) and operated 5,219 MW of electric generating capacity by end of year 2022, 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 by the winter 2022/2023 season was 7,384 MW. Of that, Basin Electric has purchased a total of 3,107 MW of electric generating capacity, including 1,525 total MW from renewable resources of which 1,480 MW are from wind turbines, and 45 MW are waste heat energy (known as recovered energy generation - REG).
Data updated April 2023.