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Tours

What do you want to see? Where would you like to go? We’ve got something of interest for everyone.

Book a tour of Basin Electric’s North Dakota electric generation power plants and the Great Plains Synfuels Plant. Enjoy the blue skies, rolling hills, buttes and grasslands and friendly communities of western North Dakota.

• Discover that clean power begins at Antelope Valley Station’s turbine bay. Your tour guide will tell you that our power plants are among the cleanest coal-based facilities in the nation. Hard to believe?
• If you’re in Wyoming, make a point to tour the Laramie River Station, near Wheatland. For the past 20 years, LRS has ranked as one of America’s cleanest and most efficient coal-based power plants.
• Don’t forget to stop at Headquarters in Bismarck, ND. Visit our Security/Response Center where they dispatch line crews and provide a call-in service for 58 distribution cooperatives. Get to know some of the managers, engineers, accountants, communicators and technicians – they’re working for our members.

Media Tours

Members of the media should contact Daryl Hill, dhill@bepc.com or phone 701-223-0441 to arrange a tour of Basin Electric facilities or you may fill in an online request form.

Basin Electric and Subsidiary Facilities Tour Information

• Free tours of Basin Electric’s facilities are available.
• Appointments are required.
• All tour times (except Wyoming) are Central Standard Time (CST).
• To schedule a tour or for more information, contact Daryl Hill, dhill@bepc.com  phone 701-223-0441.
• Go to the Tour Request Form.

Antelope Valley Station (ND)

Take a tour of AVS

A coal-fired electric generating station near Beulah, ND. Tours of the Antelope Valley Station are available Monday through Friday (except holidays) from 9 a.m. until 2 p.m.

Appointments are required.

Great Plains Synfuels Plant (ND)

A coal-gasification and byproducts plant near Beulah, ND. Tours of the Great Plains Synfuels Plant are available Monday through Friday (except holidays) at 9:30 a.m., 10:30 a.m., 1 p.m. and 2 p.m.

Appointments are required.

Laramie River Station (WY)

A coal-fired electric generating station near Wheatland, WY. Tours of the Laramie River Station are available Monday through Friday (except holidays) from 9 a.m. until 3 p.m. Mountain Time.

Appointments are required.

Leland Olds Station (ND)

A coal-fired electric generating station near Stanton, ND. Tours of the Leland Olds Station are available Monday through Friday (except holidays) from 9 a.m. until 2 p.m. Central Time.

Appointments are required.

Spirit Mound Station (SD)

An oil-fired peaking station near Vermillion, SD. Tours of the Spirit Mound Station are available Monday through Friday (except holidays) from 9 a.m. until 2 p.m. Central Time.

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Antelope Valley Station turbine bay

 

Clean power plants

In 1997, former senior vice president of Operations & Engineering, Rich Fockler, reflected on a 35-year Basin Electric tradition of maintaining power plants at optimum levels of industrial hygiene and performance maintenance.

He said, “If you drop your sandwich on the turbine bay floor at any of our power plants, you can pick it up and eat it.”

  

No complaints 

"After touring this plant, and seeing what's required to produce and deliver electricity to my house, I'll never again complain about my electric bill."

~Iowa electric cooperative consumer 

 

202,000 people

More than 202,000 people have toured Basin Electric facilities since 1982. Daryl Hill, news media coordinator, or our other facility tour guides tell visitors all about what goes on inside.

View driving directions to our facilities, but remember that appointments are required.