2024 Basin Bus Tour
June 5-7, 2024
Knowing you have safe and reliable electricity is great to know, but do you really know how it is generated and what it takes to get it from Beulah, North Dakota?
On Wednesday, June 5th a tour bus loaded with members from Clay-Union Electric, B-Y Electric and Union County Electric will set off to learn about how your power is generated and distributed.
Our first stop will be in Madison, SD to tour and visit with the folks at East River Electric, our generation & transmission cooperative.
We will stop in Huron for lunch and then travel on to Bismarck for dinner and rest for the evening.
On Thursday, June 6th our day will start bright and early with our first stop at Dakota Gasification Company (DGC), a subsidiary of Basin Electric Power Cooperative. DGC owns and operates the Great Plains Synfuels Plant near Beulah, North Dakota. The Synfuels Plant is the only commercial-scale coal gasification facility in the United States that manufactures natural gas.
Our next stop will be to tour the Antelope Valley Station, a coal fired power plant, with lunch provided on site, with our last tour of the day at the Freedom Mines.
We will then head back to our motel to freshen up before going to dinner as a group at one of the fine establishments in Bismarck and surrounding areas have to offer.
On Thursday we will edge our way home with a stop in Pierre, where South Dakota Rural Electric Association will fuel the members with a picnic lunch before proceeding on to the Oahe Dam for the last tour of the trip.
The Basin Bus tour is a biyearly event paid for by the cooperative to continue to educate its members on how they receive their electricity and the importance of a balanced mix of generation sources to provide safe, reliable, and affordable electricity to the members, now and into the future.
We ask for a $15 per person deposit (refundable the day of event) to hold your spot. If you have been on the tour in the past, we ask that you please contact us after the deadline to confirm if the spots have been filled by first time travelers.
Please apply below by April 30th, 2024.