Energy Council - Power Plants. Location: 7 miles northwest of Beulah, ND Plant description: Antelope Valley Station (AVS) is a lignite-based electric generating station with two pulverized tangentially fired boilers.
AVS provides baseload electric service, operating 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Dedication Ceremony Held for Dry Fork Station. Gillette, Wyo. – The dedication ceremony for Wyoming’s newest coal-based power plant was held today at the $1.35-billion Dry Fork Station six miles north of Gillette.
More than 1,100 people were in attendance for a program that featured Wyoming Gov. Matt Mead. He said the Dry Fork Station is a story of perseverance. “There were amazing hurdles that had to be overcome to get the plant built,” he said. “Coal is part of our past, present and future.” Basin Electric Power Cooperative. Electricity. It's a simple fact of life: electricity is essential for everyone, everywhere.
Today, Basin Electric is known as one of the most progressive electric cooperatives in America. Whether its renewable energy, fuel diversity, or clean coal, Basin Electric is leading the way for generation and transmission cooperatives and other electric utilities nationwide. Basin Electric is working with our member systems to ensure that electricity for rural America remains reliable and affordable.
In response to significant member load growth, we are building new baseload and peaking units and exploring the viability of renewable energy technologies for generating bulk wholesale power. Almost 50 years ago, Basin Electric began serving rural America through development of hydroelectric and lignite coal-based resources. We believe that innovation will bring new technologies into the U.S. generation mix. Project Profile - Basin Electric Power Cooperative - Greenheck Fan Corporation.
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Dry Fork Station « Powering The West. Last week, a dedication ceremony took place near Gillette, Wyo., for Basin Electric’s new coal-based power plant — Dry Fork Station.
More than 1,100 people were in attendance for a program that featured Wyoming Gov. Matt Mead. Tri-State is a class-A member of Basin Electric and, as a result of the capacity provided by Dry Fork Station, will purchase an additional 75 megawatts from Basin under a long-term purchase power agreement. Emceeing for the dedication event, Basin Electric’s CEO and general manager Ron Harper acknowledged that the completion of Dry Fork Station was an important accomplishment and stated the organization is “quite proud of that.”
Harper noted that more than $336 million was invested for environmental controls for the facility, making it one of the cleanest coal-based power plants in the country. During the construction of Dry Fork Station, the work force peaked at more than 1,300 construction workers from more than 36 states. New coal power plant goes online near Gillette. By MATTHEW BROWN BILLINGS, Mont.
A new coal-fired power station went online in northeastern Wyoming on Thursday, marking the state's first coal plant completion since early 2008. WyGen III will deliver electricity to about 70,000 residents in western South Dakota and parts of Wyoming and Montana. It was built by Black Hills Power Corp. for $247 million to meet growing electricity demand in the region. To cover the 100-megawatt plant's price tag, the bill for a typical residential customer in Wyoming is expected to rise by about 64 cents a day. In South Dakota, rates would rise by about 59 cents a day, or $216 annually. Final rate approvals are pending before state regulators. WyGen III has been running on a test basis since mid-February with no major problems, said Black Hills Vice President Mark Lux said. "The project was completed in 24 months ahead of schedule and under budget," he said.
UWP-Dry-Fork-Station. Environmental Impact Statements In accordance with 7 CFR 1794.25, Proposals normally requiring an Environmental Impact Statement, the following list includes the Environmental Impact Statements prepared or are under preparation for agency consideration.
The links below provide electronic copies of all related Federal Register notices and EIS documentation. Basin Electric Power Cooperative, Inc. Environmental Impact Statement on Dry Fork Station and Hughes Transmission Line, Gillette, WY BEPC proposes to construct a 385 MW coal-fired power plant and related facilities at a site near Gillette, Wyoming. Federal Register Notice to Hold Public Scoping Meetings and Prepare an Environmental Impact Statement (11/9/2005) (56 KB). Dry Fork Station. Brian Bartow minds Gillette's Dry Fork Station power plant. Brian Bartow does what computers can’t at Basin Electric’s Dry Fork Station power plant in Gillette.
He applies his human instincts to the hundreds of computer-operated machines that run the plant’s turbine. The concurrent need for both natural and automated functions at the plant pins Bartow at the nexus of a more than century-old experiment between man and machine. Barring a few exceptions, nearly every machine at the plant is tied to computers that feed into a control station where there are 27 monitors that have the ability to look at everything from the boiler’s functions, emissions rates per minute, the chemical balance of the plant’s water and the capacity of dust collectors.
Bartow isn’t employed to compute algorithms and control the thousands — maybe millions — of functions simultaneously occurring at once in the plant. Bartow gets paid to look, smell and feel for things computers can’t detect: leaks, cracks, abnormal temperatures, high and low pressure readings and obscure noise. Central Wyoming Powerplant Brings New Generating Capacity. Photo courtesy of Sargent and Lundy LLC Dry Fork is a mine-mouth station that uses low-sulfur Powder River Basin coal, a significant resource for the local economy.
The project had to meet stringent environmental standards, with all air emissions minimized through state-of-the-art technology and controls. ----- Advertising ----- 2012 Best Project Industrial/Manufacturing Category. At a Glance. Basin Electric Power Cooperative is a consumer-owned, regional generation and transmission (G&T) cooperative providing wholesale power to 137 member rural electric systems in nine states.
Basin Electric is a parent company to eight subsidiaries. The following statistics are for end-of-year (EOY) 2014.