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| Organization, Consolidation and Presentation of Financial Statements [Abstract] | |
| Organization | ORGANIZATION Basin Electric Power Cooperative (Basin Electric) is an electric generation and transmission cooperative corporation, organized and existing under the laws of the State of North Dakota. It serves member electric service needs in a nine-state region of North Dakota, South Dakota, Montana, Wyoming, New Mexico, Colorado, Nebraska, Minnesota and Iowa. Basin Electric’s power supply resources are composed of its own generating facilities and contractual power purchase arrangements. Basin Electric owns and operates transmission assets, some of which are a part of regional transmission organizations. The rates charged to its members for electric service are established by Basin Electric’s Board of Directors with changes in rates subject to acceptance by the United States Department of Agriculture Rural Utilities Service (RUS). Basin Electric has three wholly owned for-profit subsidiaries, Dakota Gasification Company (Dakota Gas), Dakota Coal Company (Dakota Coal), and Nemadji River Generation (NRG). Basin Electric also has one wholly owned not-for-profit subsidiary, Basin Cooperative Services (BCS). Dakota Gas has a wholly owned for-profit subsidiary, Souris Valley Pipeline Limited (SVPL). Dakota Coal has a wholly owned for-profit subsidiary, Montana Limestone Company (MLC). Dakota Gas owns and operates the Great Plains Synfuels Plant (Synfuels Plant) which converts lignite coal into pipeline-quality synthetic gas and produces a number of other products including anhydrous ammonia, urea, diesel exhaust fluid (DEF), carbon dioxide (CO2), tar oil and chemical products. The Synfuels Plant is located adjacent to Basin Electric’s Antelope Valley Station (AVS) electric generating plant. These plants share certain facilities, and coal and water supplies. Dakota Gas supplies various Basin Electric gas generating stations and AVS with synthetic gas. SVPL owns and operates a CO2 pipeline in Saskatchewan, Canada. Dakota Coal purchases lignite coal from the Freedom Mine, a coal mine in North Dakota that is owned and operated by The Coteau Properties Company (Coteau), a wholly owned subsidiary of The North American Coal Corporation (NACoal). NACoal is a wholly owned subsidiary of NACCO Industries, Inc. (NACCO). Coteau is a variable interest entity (VIE) of Dakota Coal. Pursuant to the coal purchase agreement, Dakota Coal is obligated to provide financing for and has certain rights with respect to the operation of the coal mine. The lignite coal is used in Basin Electric’s Leland Olds Station (LOS), AVS, and Dakota Gas’s Synfuels Plant. Dakota Coal coordinates procurement and rail delivery of Powder River Basin coal to the Laramie River Station (LRS) and the Dry Fork Station (DFS). Dakota Coal also owns a lime plant that sells lime to AVS, the Laramie River Station (LRS) and others. MLC operates a limestone quarry and owns and operates a fine grind plant, both in Montana, and sells limestone to Dakota Coal’s lime plant, LOS and others. BCS provides certain nonutility property management services to Basin Electric. Basin Electric is a 42.27% owner of the Missouri Basin Power Project (MBPP) and acts as the operating agent for the 1,700 megawatt LRS generating plant in Wyoming, associated transmission facilities and the Grayrocks Dam and Reservoir. Basin Electric’s ownership in MBPP is accounted for using proportionate consolidation consistent with accounting for jointly owned utility property. NRG was a 30 percent owner in the Nemadji Trail Energy Center (NTEC) project, which was a proposed 600 megawatt combined cycle generating plant in Wisconsin. In January 2026, NRG exited the NTEC project and the NRG subsidiary is expected to be fully dissolved by the end of 2026. Dakota Carbon Services LLC (DCS) owns and operates carbon capture assets in North Dakota and contracts for transportation and sequestration of CO2. DCS was formed by DGC with a tax equity partner to monetize tax credits available under Section 45Q of the United States Internal Revenue Code for the capture and sequestration of CO2 (45Q transaction).
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