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What We Buy

We buy material, equipment and services to support Basin Electric and its subsidiary businesses: Dakota Gasification Company; Basin Telecommunications Inc. and Dakota Coal Company.

These materials, equipment and services are related to the businesses of wholesale electric power generation and transmission, gas production and transportation, coal mining, telecommunications, limestone quarrying, lime kiln operating, new construction, and daily operations of each.

Products we buy

Some of the products Basin Electric purchases are below:

• Ash handling equipment
• Auto parts
• Bearings
• Belting, belt splicing and services
• Blowers
• Boiler
• Ceramics
• Chemicals
• Chimney inspection
• Coal handling equipment
• Compressors
• Computer hardware, software and consumables
• Computer network hardware/software
• Concrete services
• Control systems
• Conveyors
• Dampers
• Electrical materials
• Electricity and related products
• Elevators
• Engineering services
• Equipment rentals
• Fans
• Fasteners
• Feedwater heaters
• Freight services
• Fuels, gas and diesel
• Gases, specialty and welding
• Gaskets
• Hazardous waste disposal and services
• Heat exchangers
• Hvac
• Hydro blasting
• Industrial supplies (hand tools, slings, wire rope, etc)
• Instrumentation
• Insulation and insulation services
• Janitorial supplies and services
• Lab supplies
• Motors
• Office equipment
• Painting
• Paper products
• Pest control
• Pipe and fittings
• Printing supplies and services
• Pumps
• Repairs (motors, valves, etc)
• Safety equipment and materials
• Sootblowers
• Steel
• Technology solutions 
• Testing services
• Transmission materials and services
• Turbine maintenance
• Turbine/generators
• Valves
• Vehicles
• Welding supplies

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