advertisement | your ad here
 
 
Utility starts work on Williston power plant
Share Email Bookmark

Basin Electric Power Cooperative has

started work on a natural gas-fueled plant that will help meet the

oil industry's electric power demands.

The Pioneer station will be built about 15 miles northwest of

Williston. It will be near a natural gas processing plant that's

also under construction.

They'll both be tied into a rural cooperative electric

substation.

Project manager Myron Steckler says the new Pioneer station will

be capable of generating 45 megawatts of power.

Basin hopes to have it operating by early 2013.

Natural gas has become a more popular fuel for electric

generation because its price has been going down in recent months.

Basin Electric is based in Bismarck. It supplies wholesale power

to rural electric cooperative customers.


Copyright © 2003-2013 Clear Channel. All rights reserved.