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Basin Electric Power Coop — power plant portfolio

Basin Electric Power Coop operates 17 power plants across 1 country, with a combined installed capacity of 5,492 MW. Its plants with asset-level emissions data total 11,610,102 t CO₂/yr.

17power plants
5,492MW total capacity
1countries
11,610,102t CO₂/yr (source-labelled)

Fleet by fuel

Gas: 8 plants8GasCoal: 4 plants4CoalWind: 4 plants4WindOil: 1 plants1Oil

Fleet interpretation

Basin Electric Power Coop is represented here as an asset portfolio, not just a company label. The visible fleet spans 1 country; the largest concentration is United States of America (17).

The fuel mix by asset count is gas (8), coal (4), wind (4), oil (1). The largest listed asset is Laramie River Station in United States of America (1,710 MW), and the mean listed unit size is about 328 MW across units with capacity data.

CO₂ coverage is source-labelled: 6 plants have a reported or modelled CO₂ value in the dataset, including 4 measured records. Missing values remain blank rather than inferred as company totals.

Method: plant-level records are grouped by owner/operator label, then aggregated by country, fuel, capacity and CO₂ provenance.

All 17 plants

PlantFuelCountryMWt CO₂/yr
Laramie River StationCoalUnited States of America1,71010,979,532
Antelope ValleyCoalUnited States of America954
Leland OldsCoalUnited States of America656
Dry Fork StationCoalUnited States of America484
Lonesome Creek StationGasUnited States of America366
Deer Creek StationGasUnited States of America324
Pioneer Generating StationGasUnited States of America293260,040
Groton Generating StationGasUnited States of America21689,416
Prairie Winds SD1WindUnited States of America162
Spirit MoundOilUnited States of America13588,667
Prairie Winds ND1WindUnited States of America116
Culbertson Generation StationGasUnited States of America91137,957
ArvadaGasUnited States of America2221,796
Barber CreekGasUnited States of America22
HartzogGasUnited States of America2232,694
Minot Wind ProjectWindUnited States of America7
Chamberlain Wind ProjectWindUnited States of America3

Ownership & capacity: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). CO₂ is measured for EPA/EU ETS records and modelled for Climate TRACE records.

Frequently asked questions

How many power plants does Basin Electric Power Coop operate?

Basin Electric Power Coop operates 17 power plants across 1 country, with about 5,492 MW of total capacity.

What is Basin Electric Power Coop's largest power plant?

Laramie River Station in United States of America is its largest at about 1,710 MW.

What types of power plants does Basin Electric Power Coop run?

Its fleet is mostly gas (8), coal (4), wind (4).

How much CO₂ do Basin Electric Power Coop's plants emit?

Its reporting plants emit about 11,610,102 tonnes of CO₂ per year in this dataset.

By Dmytro Aheiev, Inzonex Research · ORCID 0009-0001-5512-0291 · data sources and methodology