2025 Basin Electric Bus Tour & Youth Excursion
By Patrick Soukup, Manager or Member Services & Marketing
The Basin Electric Bus Tour is an educational experience that teaches members how their cooperative power is generated. In July, the group pictured above traveled to North Dakota to learn the story behind the switch.
The annual bus tour brought members to the Great Plains Synfuels Plant, Freedom Coal Mine and Antelope Valley Station power generation plant.
Central Electric also sent two students on the Basin Electric Youth Excursion in July. Carson Nicholson of Hanson High School and Matthew Greenway of Mitchell High School joined 14 other South Dakota students on the youth trip to Bismarck.
If you want to see your power in action, mark your calendars for the next Basin Electric Bus Tour taking place July 15-17, 2026. The Youth Excursion date has not been set. Members and students who are interested in attending either trip can contact the Central Electric office by calling 605-996-7516.
(The Basin Electric Youth Excursion welcomed 16 South Dakota students and chaperones to learn where their power is generated.)