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The group responsible for facilitating the growth of electrical transmission infrastructure in North Dakota has a new executive director.

The group responsible for facilitating the growth of electrical transmission infrastructure in North Dakota has a new executive director.

“We don’t want to do anything that can’t be undone that we would regret,” Nate Jensen, Otter Tail’s manager of resource planning, has said of his company's decision to stick with coal-fired power.

Federal environmental regulators have proposed denying a coal ash disposal permit for Rainbow Energy Center, which generates almost half of North Dakota's electricity.

UNDERWOOD, N.D. (PRAIRIE PUBLIC) - A proposed decision by the federal Environmental Protection Agency could mean Rainbow Energy's Coal Creek Station w...

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North Dakota's DEQ gave it the go-ahead.

Federal environmental regulators have proposed denying a coal ash disposal permit for Rainbow Energy Center — which generates almost half of North Dakota's electricity.

"When you’re dependent on the weather for generating the electricity and have less dispatchable, you’re going to have tighter markets and you’re going to have times where you have a greater threat of having to have rolling blackouts,” North Dakota Public Service Commissioner Julie Fedorchak has said, noting that we've been too hasty in shutting down coal power.

The bonds will provide up to a $150 million loan to Nexus Line, LLC