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Western Fuels is a comprehensive and cost-effective fuel chain management organization, strengthened by collective advocacy.

In addition to being a world-class producer and mining operation, we’re a group of unparalleled logistics experts serving our membership through fuel purchases, contract negotiations, and logistics endeavors to ensure that your fuel gets delivered where you need it, when you need it. 

WFA can become your organization’s entire fuel and transportation department, manage your fleet, or step in to provide only the services you need — putting economies of scale to work in your community.

Mission

To champion our members and provide exceptional benefit by acquiring and transporting fuel at the lowest possible cost.

Vision

A safe, reliable, affordable supply of energy that powers growth and prosperity for communities across the country.

From the Great Plains to the Rocky Mountains and beyond

We work with — and for — consumer-owned electric utilities throughout the Great Plains, Rocky Mountain, and Southwest regions. Our members are municipal utilities, rural electric generation and transmission cooperatives, and large-scale power suppliers serving millions of customers.

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Pioneering carbon capture with the University of Wyoming

Since 2018, Western Fuels Wyoming’s Dry Fork Mine has partnered with the University of Wyoming’s Center for Economic Geology Research to study carbon capture, utilization, and storage.

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Pioneering carbon capture with the University of Wyoming
Adam Anderson
Adam Anderson

CEO & General Manager

Sherry Gray
Sherry Gray

Executive Assistant

Kim Roach
Kim Roach

Director, Commercial Operations

Dave Gaunter
Dave Gaunter

General Manager, Dry Fork Mine

Rex Johnson
Rex Johnson

General Counsel

Laura Vick
Laura Vick

Director, Accounting & Finance

Jerry Barnaby
Jerry Barnaby

Railcar Fleet Manager

Micah Carolus
Micah Carolus

Transportation Coordinator

Susie Boland
Susie Boland

Accounting Specialist

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Western Fuels is guided and governed by the same people we serve. Our board of directors is best positioned to provide the insight we need to serve our members because they are members themselves.

Board of Directors

Class A

Todd Brickhouse

Todd Brickhouse

Director
CEO & General Manager
Basin Electric Power Cooperative
Paul Baker

Paul Baker

President
Director
Basin Electric Power Cooperative
Troy Presser

Troy Presser

Director
Director
Basin Electric Power Cooperative
Mike McQuistion

Mike McQuistion

Secretary/Treasurer
Director
Basin Electric Power Cooperative
Jake Dow

Jake Dow

Alternate Director
Engineer III
Basin Electric Power Cooperative
Colleen Peterson

Colleen Peterson

Alternate Director
Fuel & Fuel Transportation Superintendent
Basin Electric Power Cooperative
Steve Epperson

Steve Epperson

Vice Secretary/Treasurer
CEO
Sunflower Electric Power Corporation
Tracy Davis

Tracy Davis

Alternate Director
Accountant Supervisor
Sunflower Electric Power Corporation
Corey Linville

Corey Linville

Director
Vice President & COO of Genration & Power Supply
Sunflower Electric Power Corporation
Wes Campbell

Wes Campbell

Alternate Director
Chairman
Sunflower Electric Power Corporation
Jeremy Ash

Jeremy Ash

Director
Chief Operating Officer
Kansas City Board of Public Utilities
William Johnson

William Johnson

Director
General Manager
Kansas City Board of Public Utilities

Class B

Rick Landers

Rick Landers

Vice President
General Manager
Sikeston Board of Municipal Utilities

History

Western Fuels is a not-for profit cooperative that supplies coal and transportation services to consumer-owned electric utilities throughout the Great Plains, Rocky Mountain and Southwest regions. Serving a wide variety of public power entities ranging from rural electric generation and transmission cooperatives to municipal utilities, WFA offers its Members diverse and extensive expertise in coal mining, coal procurement and transportation management.

Western Fuels Association, founded in 1974, is a cooperative enterprise operating on a not-for profit basis to provide coal and other services for the generation of electricity by consumer owned utilities.  Where WFA is considering expanding its membership base to include investor-owned utilities and industrial consumers of coal, current member-owners are rural electric generation and transmission cooperatives, municipal utilities and other public power entities.

For more than four decades Western Fuels has utilized its considerable and diverse experience to provide comprehensive fuel chain management services to a progressive membership that today includes Basin Electric Power Cooperative, Kansas Board of Public Utilities, the Board of Public Municipal Utilities of Sikeston, Mo, Sunflower Electric Power Corporation, and Southern Minnesota Municipal Power Agency.