Cooperative Utility Membership Will Vote on Renewable Energy Standard
The content that follows was originally published on the Institute for Local Self-Reliance website at http://www.ilsr.org/cooperative-utility-membership-will-vote-renewable-energy-standard/UPDATE NOVEMBER 2006: At the November 2-3, 2005, annual meeting, the members of Basin Electric adopted a resolution that calls for obtaining renewable resources by 2010 that will be equal to 10 percent of the generating capacity needed to meet its member demand.
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Members of the primarily coal-based Basin Electric Cooperative, headquartered in Bismarck, ND, will vote in November on whether to require the cooperative to acquire 10 percent of its electric generating capacity from renewable energy.
