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Energy: Powered by North Dakota North Dakota Energy Sites Welcome ...........................................3 Transmission & Distribution ................20 About the Creators ..............................4 Petroleum Production ........................21 Welcome to Energy: Powered by North Dakota North Dakota Energy Sites ...................5 Shale Energy Technologies .................23 Generation .......................................6 Refining ...........................................24 Coal .................................................8 Pipelines ..........................................25 What an exciting project this has been! What you’re holding in your hands (or reading on the web) is the product of a great collaboration Peaking Plants ..................................12 Synthetic Natural Gas........................26 driven by energy and education stakeholders eager to get balanced Wind ...............................................13 Natural Gas Processing .....................27 and factual information on North Dakota’s energy resources into Geothermal .....................................15 Ethanol ............................................28 the hands of our future leaders. North Dakota has become an Hydro Power ....................................16 Biomass/Biofuels/Biodiesel ................29 economic powerhouse in recent years, much to the credit of the Solar Power ......................................17 Energy Efficiency ...............................31 expanding energy industry within the state. Never before has our Recovered Energy .............................19 Education/Workforce Training ............32 state experienced the recognition as we do today, breaking all kinds of records and topping all types of top ten lists. Flip through the following pages to see highlights, maps, and photos from each of North This Project is Supported By: Dakota’s energy sectors. Much of the material contained in this book can be used with and is drawn from the web-based curriculum of Energy: Powered by North Dakota found at www.ndstudies.gov. Enjoy! Emily McKay Emily McKay, Project Manager LEARN MORE AT www.ndstudies.gov Energy: Powered by North Dakota By: Laverne A. Johnson, M.S., Gwyn S. Herman, Ph.D., Distributed by the North Dakota Studies Kim Christianson, and Gail Christianson Program, Neil D. Howe, Program Coordinator with contributions by Emily McKay State Historical Society of North Dakota ISBN 978-0-9801993-9-0 Bismarck, North Dakota 58505-0830 INDUSTRIAL COMMISSION All Rights Reserved www.ndstudies.gov Partially funded by the North Dakota OF NORTH DAKOTA Lignite Research, Development and Copyright 2014 State Industrial Commission Marketing Program Cover photo courtesy of Basin Electric Power Cooperative 2 3 NORTH DAKOTA ENERGY SITES About the Creators: Emily McKay Dakota to research and write six grade four North Dakota Studies books with accompanying Emily McKay is the Director activities and teacher resource guides. of the Great Plains Energy Corridor at Bismarck State College’s National Energy Kim Christianson * Center of Excellence. McKay Minot joined the Energy Corridor Kim Christianson has many Williston in 2011 and is responsible for the Corridor’s years of experience working * * * Grand communications, event planning and grant with programs related to Forks administration. A former Peace Corps volunteer, North Dakota energy, most * McKay has worked in the energy industry for more recently as Director of the than nine years, most recently at Basin Electric Great Plains Energy Corridor Power Cooperative. McKay also serves as Project office at Bismarck State College (BSC). Prior Director of the TREND Consortium at Bismarck to his position with BSC, Mr. Christianson State College which supports training and was the Manager of the Office of Renewable Dickinson * education for energy careers in North Dakota. Energy and Energy Efficiency for the North Bismarck Dakota Department of Commerce, supervising Fargo the managers of the state’s Weatherization Gail Christianson program and State Energy Program, along with Gail Christianson earned the activities of the state energy engineer. He a B.A. in geography from also administered the state buildings energy Moorhead State College. efficiency program, was actively involved with wind energy development in North Dakota, She has taught in both Natural Gas Processing Coal-Based Generation Lignite Mine Hydro Power public and private schools in and tracked state and federal legislation pertaining to energy efficiency and renewable Jamestown and Bismarck, ND. Wind Farm Synfuels Plant Ethanol Plant Petroleum Refinery Mrs. Christianson spent 28 years as an elementary development. classroom teacher, primarily in 5th grade, in the Recovered Energy Laverne A. Bakken Formation Oil Fields Peaking Station Bismarck Public School (BPS) system. She served Generation Johnson, M.S. as a K-3 math coach for BPS for three years before * Under Construction retiring in 2013. Laverne Johnson, M.S. is a Gwyn S. Herman, co-developer for the Energy: Map courtesy of Bismarck State College National Energy Center of Excellence. Powered by North Dakota Ph.D. curricula for fourth and eighth Gwyn S. Herman, Ph.D. is a grades. Ms. Johnson grew up on co-developer for the Energy: a farm in central North Dakota and has lived Powered by North Dakota in the state for most of her life. Her educational % curricula for fourth and eighth experience includes 23 years as an elementary 11 North Dakota’s Total % grades. Dr. Herman, a native of and middle school teacher, ten years as a high 6 Beulah, North Dakota, has 39 years of teaching school speech/language pathologist, and eight Energy Production experience in elementary and high schools as well years at the university level. Ms. Johnson and as the University of Mary. Dr. Herman and co- associate, Gwyn Herman, have worked as % Renewables curriculum developers for North Dakota Studies 66 % author, Laverne Johnson, have been developing 17 Natural gas since 2006, co-authoring six fourth grade North Dakota Studies curricula since 2006, According to US books with accompanying activities and teacher Crude oil working with the State Historical Society of North Energy Information resource guides. Coal Administration, 2012 Data 4 5 GENERATION The Creation of Electricity ■ North Dakota has a wide variety of electricity generation facilities including: ▷ Coal-fired power plants ▷ Hydroelectric turbines at Garrison Dam ▷ A growing network of wind energy turbines ▷ Natural gas and fuel oil peaking plants ▷ Heat recovery units that capture waste heat from pipelines Antelope Valley Station, Great Plains Synfuels Plant and the Freedom Mine are shown in this Compressor stations aerial photo, courtesy of Basin Electric Power Cooperative. ▷ Tom Jesperson, Energy Advisor for Verendrye ▷ A small amount of solar power Electric, teaches students about solar panels Verendrye members use to power pumps to ▷ Explorations into the potential for geothermal water cattle. Photo courtesy of Verendrye ■ According to the National Oceanic and ▷ Natural gas prices rank 49th out of 49 electrical generation Electric Cooperative. Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), North states that reported. Dakota has the coldest average winter ■ North Dakota ranks 50th out of 51 (states In North Dakota, three companies temperatures of the lower 48 states, which ■ and the District of Columbia) in home electric distribute natural gas to residential k W h contributes to increased energy usage for costs. As of December 2013, the average customers: heating purposes. residential electricity price in North Dakota was 8.55 cents per kilowatt hour (kWh). The The two main sources of home heating fuel ▷ Montana-Dakota Utilities Company ■ national average was 11.72 cents per kWh. in North Dakota are natural gas and electricity. ▷ Great Plains Natural Gas Company The prices for these fuels are among the lowest (a division of MDU Resources Group, Inc.) ■ Even though the need for electricity in North in the country, as reported to the US Energy Dakota is rapidly increasing, the state continues k W h K 2 A Information Administration: ▷ Xcel Energy to produce about three times more electricity 320H21202141 than it needs. The excess energy is exported to 100watts x 10 hours = 10,000 = 1 kilowatt Residential electricity prices rank 50th out Source: US Energy Information Administration, State ▷ other states. C 497 430 of 51 (states plus the District of Columbia) Energy Data 2011: Production % % 4.6 3 Home Heating Fuels What is a watt? A 100-watt bulb that is turned on North Dakotans use the following house heating fuels: A watt is a unit for measuring electrical power. for 10 hours uses 1 kWh of electricity (100 watts x 10 hours =1000 watt-hours % How do you calculate a kilowatt? divided by 1000 watts/kilowatt = 1 kWh) 13.7 Fuel Oil Kerosene Multiply one watt by 1,000 (1,000 watts = it costs 8.55 cents Bottled, Tank or LP gas 1 kilowatt.) In North Dakota % to burn one 100 watt bulb for 10 hours. 41. 6 Electricity kWh stands for kilowatt hour. % According to This is an amount of electrical energy equal Utility Gas 37.1 US Census Bureau, 2012 to one hour of using electricity at the rate of Source: rapidtables.com, OGE Energy Corp. Other 1,000 watts/hour. kWh stands for kilowatt hour. 6 7 GENERATION Coal Power Plants and Mines Minot Williston Grand Forks A closer look inside the turbine bay at Stanton Station near Stanton, ND. Photo courtesy of Great River Energy. Dickinson Bismarck Fargo COAL North Dakota has eight power plants that convert coal to electricity. PLANT
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