Basin Electric Power Cooperative Plans for 6-week Outage on 444MW Unit

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Researched by Industrialinfo.com (Industrial Information Resources, Incorporated; Houston, Texas). Basin Electric Power Cooperative (Bismarck, North Dakota), a consumer-owned regional electric cooperative, is planning a 6-week outage of the 444MW Leland Olds Power Station unit 2 in Stanton, North Dakota.

Stanton 2 is a 1975 vintage lignite coal-fired Babcock & Wilcox (B&W) wet bottom cyclone boiler (3,050,000 pounds/hour, 2,640 pounds per square inch at 1005F) that provides steam for an Alstom steam turbine/generator set. The unit has an electrostatic precipitator to control particulate matter. The outage is planned for an early October 2002 kick-off and should be completed by mid-November.

Basin Electric and its subsidiaries employ about 1700 people and operate electricity-generating power plants with a total capacity of 3,323 megawatts. They serve 124 rural electric member cooperative systems, which in turn serve approximately 1.7 million consumers in the nine states of North Dakota, South Dakota, Montana, Wyoming, Minnesota, Nebraska, Iowa, Colorado, and New Mexico. Basin Electric has several subsidiaries, including Dakota Gasification Company, which produces natural gas from the coal gasification process, and products including chemicals and fertilizers. They also provide Internet access and business solutions through BTInet, and are a partner in a regional service company called Cooperative ConNEXTions.