After a major storm rolled through North Dakota on Friday night, thousands have been left with a power outage in their homes.

If passed, North Dakota Senate Bill 2360 would power a study on geothermal energy in the coming year, specifically examining an idea to build geothermal plants in used up oil and gas wells in the ...

UNDERWOOD, N.D. — North Dakota’s largest coal-fired power plant will close in two years -- eliminating 740 jobs -- unless buyers can be found to rescue Coal Creek Station and along with it the ...

BEULAH, N.D. (AP) — No one was hurt in a fire at the Coyote Station power plant near Beulah in western North Dakota. Minnesota-based Otter Tail Power Co. says in a statement that a mechanical ...

Great River Energy on Monday closed the $227 million sale of its big North Dakota coal power plant and an accompanying 436-mile power line. The sale to Bismarck, N.D.-based Rainbow Energy ...

North Dakota, which still has a half-dozen active coal plants, also stands to benefit from “utilizing existing infrastructure at the power plant sites that we have,” Garman said during the ...

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Minnesota regulators on Thursday approved the transfer of a key permit necessary for a financially troubled coal-fired power plant in North Dakota to be sold to a Bismarck ...

Otter Tail Power has reversed its decision to exit a large North Dakota coal-fired power plant, citing new risks in the Midwest's electricity market. In 2021, Fergus Falls, Minn.-based Otter Tail ...

Since the 1960s, one of North Dakota's larger industries has been electric power production. Lignite coal plants have been the state's primary source of electric production, but over the last two ...

A natural gas exploration company working in the Bakken Shale has announced plans to build a $400 million power plant in North Dakota that would run on ethane. Bakken Midstream Natural Gas (BMNG ...

Young Station, a power plant near Beulah, North Dakota. Minnkota has said designing and building the system would cost about $2 billion. The project has been in the works since 2015, but progress ...

In addition, the power plants would bring additional money into the state, she said, by selling energy to other communities and cementing North Dakota’s status as a regional energy provider.