Basin Electric Power Cooperative is a wholesale electric generation and transmission cooperative based in North Dakota that provides electricity to 3 million customers in nine U.S. states. The roots of the cooperative go back to 1960 when Leland Olds and ten power suppliers created Giant Power Cooperative. Giant Power was first going to be a generation and transmission cooperative, but to keep electricity cheaper for rural customers, Basin Electric Power Cooperative was started in 1961. Today, Basin Electric's power sources include coal, natural gas, hydroelectric, wind, waste heat, and nuclear.[1] The current CEO and General Manager is Todd Telesz. A subsidiary of Basin Electric, Dakota Gasification Company, operates the Great Plains Synfuels Plant, which captures and sequesters nearly 50% of its carbon dioxide emissions in a system developed during the Carter administration. In 2005, the membership of Basin Electric passed a resolution requiring 10 percent of electricity demand to be provided by renewable forms of energy. At the end of 2009, Basin Electric finished construction on a 77 turbine wind energy project.[2]

Member cooperatives

Direct purchasing

G&T

  • Central Power Electric Cooperative - Minot, North Dakota
  • Central Montana Electric Power Cooperative - Great Falls, Montana
  • Corn Belt Power Cooperative - Humboldt, Iowa
  • East River Electric Power Cooperative - Madison, South Dakota
  • L & O Power Cooperative - Rock Rapids, Iowa
  • Northwest Iowa Power Cooperative - LeMars, Iowa
  • Rushmore Electric Power Cooperative - Rapid City, South Dakota
  • Upper Missouri G&T Electric Cooperative - Sidney, Montana
  • Tri-State Generation and Transmission Association - Denver, Colorado

Class D Members

  • Flathead Electric Cooperative - Kalispell & Libby, Montana
  • Wyoming Municipal Power Agency - Lusk, Wyoming

States served by Basin Electric

Subsidiary companies

Board of directors

DistrictNamePositionCooperativeDirector since
9 Wayne Peltier President Direct purchasing cooperatives 2008
1 Kermit Pearson Vice President East River Electric 1997
2 Gary Drost Secretary/Treasury L & O Power 1999
6 Roberta Rohrer Assistant Secretary Central Montana Electric 2004
3 Troy Presser Director Central Power Electric Cooperative 2015
4 Don Applegate Director Northwest Iowa Power Cooperative 1997
5 Leo Brekel Director Tri-State G&T 2014
7 Mike McQuiston Director Rushmore Electric 2008
8 Allen Thiessen Director Upper Missouri G&T 2012
10 Paul Baker Director Powder River Energy Corporation 2013
11 Charlie Gilbert Director Corn Belt Power 2009

Source:[4]

References

  1. ↑ "Basin Electric Generation Portfolio". Basin Electric Power Cooperative. Archived from the original on 11 February 2010. Retrieved 27 January 2010.
  2. ↑ Nation’s largest cooperative-owned wind project fully operational near Minot, ND. Archived January 31, 2013, at archive.today Prairie Business. 31 Dec. 2009.
  3. 1 2 "Wind". Basin Electric Power Cooperative. Archived from the original on 2014-08-14. Retrieved 2014-08-13.
  4. ↑ "Director Elections and Resolutions". Basin Electric Power Cooperative. Retrieved 2015-12-18.
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