Basin Electric Power Cooperative
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Oct 5, 2026
speaker_1HOST
A three-judge panel of the D.C.
speaker_1HOST
Circuit Court of Appeals rejected Basin Electric Power Cooperative's appeal of FERC approving Northwest Rural Public Power District's withdrawal from Tri-State Generation and Transmission Association.
speaker_0HOST
Commentary, FERC leaves fuel question to states.
speaker_0HOST
Virginia's order doesn't answer it.
Erin PhillipsHOST
How does that mine to plant integration influence your reserve planning and coal quality blending?
Dave GreenGUEST
Well, Dry Fork Mine was created to provide fuel to Basin Electric's Laramie River Station.
Dave GreenGUEST
And so that's been our primary goal since Basin is part of a member-owned cooperative.
Dave GreenGUEST
Dry Fork Mine is also part of the same cooperative.
Dave GreenGUEST
And our job is to provide low cost, reliable fuel supply to Basin Electric and by extension to Basin's dry fork station next door.
Dave GreenGUEST
And so, you know, we have specific blending guides we have to follow to try and optimize, you know, how those stations perform.
Dave GreenGUEST
And because of that, you know, we need to know how much we have in reserves, the coal quality, equipment capability and needs to keep the costs down.
Cyrus WesternGUEST
So for example, here's a concrete one.
Cyrus WesternGUEST
Basin Electric, which through their Powder River Energy Cooperative in the northeast part of Wyoming, it's part of the Basin Electric Co-op system, which is headquartered in Bismarck, North Dakota.
Cyrus WesternGUEST
They just spent, I think, $3 billion or $4 billion building a huge new natural gas fired power generation facility in Western North Dakota, right? It's state of the art, extremely efficient, very clean burning natural gas.
Cyrus WesternGUEST
But one of the problems was this piece of regulation.