Basin Electric Power Cooperative
Baseload Power Plants
Baseload power plants are the work horses of Basin Electric's generation fleet.
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Leland Olds Station |
These include the Leland Olds Station, the Laramie River Station and the Antelope Valley Station. They are designed to run 24- hours-a-day, seven-days-a-week year-round. Solid, baseload power is essential not only in keeping power at your fingertips when you need it, but also in maintaining voltage on the transmission grid to prevent it from collapsing.
On occasion, Basin Electric will shut down a baseload unit to conduct regularly scheduled maintenance. These outages, which require considerable time, effort and money, are investments in efficiency and reliability.
Year after year, those investments pay off as Basin Electric's baseload power plants set generation record after generation record, regardless of unit age. It's a tribute to the employees' technical expertise and commitment to Basin Electric's mission to provide cost effective wholesale energy to our member-owners.
Basin Electric Power Cooperative
1717 East Interstate Ave.
Bismarck, ND 58503-0564 USA
701.223.0441