Basin Electric Power Coop

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Basin Electric Power Cooperative is an electric generation and transmission cooperative. The company s core business is generating and delivering electricity to wholesale customers, primarily its member systems. Basin Electric is a membership cooperative organized on a nonprofit basis; it has no capital stock. The co-op provides wholesale energy with products and services that support customers in rural America. The company was established in 1961 as a result of regional efforts by electric distribution cooperatives and the Rural Electrification Administration in Washington, D.C., seeing a need for power on the upper Great Plains to supplement the limited hydroelectric resources of the dams. Basin Electric Power Cooperative is headquartered in Bismarck, N.