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What is Partners for Affordable Energy?
Partners for Affordable Energy is a broad-based coalition of organizations and businesses that support coal-based electricity as a low-cost, reliable and increasingly clean energy source for consumers, farms and businesses in the Upper Midwest.
The goal of this coalition is to keep the region's energy costs affordable by supporting coal-based electricity as an integral component of our region's overall energy supply.
Coal-based electricity is affordable, reduces our dependence on foreign oil, impacts our region's economy, and has an impressive environmental record.
Agriculture
- North Dakota Association of Rural Electric Cooperatives
- North Dakota Farm Bureau
- North Dakota Grain Growers
- Red River Valley Sugar Beet Growers
- U.S. Durum Growers
Business
- ABB Power T&D Company, Inc.
- American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity (ACCCE)
- Beulah Chamber of Commerce
- Bismarck-Mandan Chamber of Commerce
- Dickinson Chamber of Commerce
- Grand Forks, East Grand Forks Chamber of Commerce
- Hazen Chamber of Commerce
- Lignite Energy Council
- Minot Area Chamber of Commerce
- Monitek, Inc.
- North Dakota Association of Builders
- North Dakota Association of Realtors
- North Dakota Chamber of Commerce
- North Dakota Grocers Association
- North Dakota Motor Carriers Association
- North Dakota Retailers Association
- Utility Shareholders of North Dakota
- Washburn Chamber of Commerce
Distribution Cooperatives
- Capital Electric Cooperative, Inc.
- Cavalier Rural Electric Cooperative
- KEM Electric Cooperative, Inc.
- McLean Electric Co-operative, Inc.
- Mor-Gran-Sou Electric Cooperative, Inc.
- Mountrail-Williams Electric Cooperative
- Nodak Electric Cooperative
- North Central Electric Cooperative, Inc.
- Northern Plains Electric Cooperative
- Roughrider Electric Cooperative
- Sioux Valley Southwestern Electric
- Slope Electric Cooperative, Inc.
- Verendrye Electric Cooperative, Inc.
Economic Development
- Bismarck-Mandan Development Association
- Mercer County Economic Development
- Stark Development Corporation
- Washburn Area Economic Development Association
Generation & Transmission Cooperatives
- Basin Electric Power Association
- Central Power Electric Cooperative Inc.
- Great River Energy
- Minnkota Power Cooperative
Government
Investor-Owned Utilities and Subsidiaries
- Alliant Energy Company
- MDU Resources Group Inc.
- Midwest Energy Resources Company
- Minnesota Power
- Otter Tail Power Company
Labor
- North Dakota AFL-CIO
- North Dakota Education Association
- North Dakota IBEW
- North Dakota State Building & Construction Trades Council
- United Transportation Union
Mining Companies