Top 11 stories of 2015 at Basin Electric: Live Wire

On Dec. 30, you saw the top 9 Basin Electric videos of 2015. Here are the top 11 viewed blog posts as tabulated by WordPress, our blogging …

Beautiful Christmas, even in a bucket truck

You might see a Touchstone Energy® Cooperatives commercial running on your social media channels, be it Twitter or Facebook, or you might even see it …

A day in the life of Director Roberta Rohrer

Little did she know, but Roberta Rohrer was running a 1979 co-op board election campaign from a pickup truck on the edge of the Great …

Little girl with a role model at Basin Electric

Kim Kranz, Basin Electric program communications coordinator II, meets a lot of children. She runs Basin Electric's Story Behind the Switch, an …

Co-ops team up to convert community eyesore into community centerpiece

The cooperative principle, concern for community, was never more visible in Fairfield, MT, than with a community parking lot project that brought two …

A day in the life of Basin Electric Director Allen Thiessen

If you want a glimpse into the heart of the cooperative philosophy, hop into Allen and Sue Thiessen’s pickup truck, and ride through Lambert, …

Culbertson Generation Station gets visitors from Poplar, MT

Some of our favorite days are tour days. That's because we get to show off what we do, make new friends, possibly surprise, and certainly teach …

Spring storm means outages for Basin Electric members

Snow. Wind. Cold and rainy. These are many of the ingredients needed for power outages. Following is a round-up of what some of Basin Electric's …

Cooperatives sponsor radio show to help South Dakota ranchers

The devastation following Storm Atlas, the major snowstorm that hit South Dakota, North Dakota and Wyoming Oct. 4-5, is still being counted. In power …

The Story Behind the Switch switches things up

Basin Electric updates their educational program Walk into a classroom today and you will find students reading books on tablets, punching in …