Staff from North Dakota-based Basin Electric Power Cooperative were recently at CFC headquarters in Dulles, Virginia, to review how the generation and transmission cooperative manages its generation resources, fuel supply/costs and power market volatility to reliably and affordably meet its members’ power needs.
Valerie Weigel, Basin’s vice president of asset management and commodity strategy, then sat down with CFC Vice President of Corporate Communications Charlie Gloeckner to discuss the increase in power market volatility, how Basin manages extreme weather events, dealing with more intermittent generation and planning for the future load growth.
Basin Electric is headquartered in Bismarck, North Dakota, and serves 3 million consumers through its 131 member rural electric systems in nine states: Colorado, Iowa, Minnesota, Montana, Nebraska, New Mexico, North Dakota, South Dakota and Wyoming.