Coal

Baseload power generation with coal

Two coal baseload power plants – Coal Creek Station and Stanton Station – help comprise the backbone of our electric generation system. These plants run all day, every day in order to meet the energy needs of our customers.

Great River Energy’s largest power plant has a capacity of more than 1,100 megawatts.

Our patented coal refining project, called DryFining™, will refine lignite coal producing a fuel with lower moisture content which will generate power more efficiently with fewer emissions.

Great River Energy markets the fly ash produced from its coal based power plants

Our 190-megawatt power plant located near Stanton, North Dakota provides reliable baseload power to our members.

The North American Coal Corporation’s Falkirk Mine supplies coal to Coal Creek Station.