Energizing public power

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.

Western Fuel Association & Basin Electric Cooperative Appointed to National Coal Council

Adam Anderson, CEO of Western Fuels Association and Todd Brickhouse, CEO of Basin Electric Power Cooperative Appointed to the National Coal Council

Adam Anderson

CEO & General Manager

Sherry Gray

Executive Assistant

Kim Roach

Director, Commercial Operations

Brevan Marlow

Manager, Commerical Operations

Rex Johnson

General Counsel

Laura Vick

Director, Accounting & Finance

Jerry Barnaby

Director, Fleet Management

Micah Carolus

Senior Manager, Fleet Services

Susie Boland

Accounting Specialist

Chris Fare

General Manager, Dry Fork Mine

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

Alternate Director

Interim COO

Kansas City Board of Public Utilities

Class B

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.