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.
To champion our members and provide exceptional benefit by acquiring and transporting fuel at the lowest possible cost.
A safe, reliable, affordable supply of energy that powers growth and prosperity for communities across the country.
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.
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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CEO & General Manager
CEO & General Manager
Executive Assistant
Executive Assistant
Director, Commercial Operations
Director, Commercial Operations
General Manager, Dry Fork Mine
General Manager, Dry Fork Mine
General Counsel
General Counsel
Director, Accounting & Finance
Director, Accounting & Finance
Railcar Fleet Manager
Railcar Fleet Manager
Transportation Coordinator
Transportation Coordinator
Accounting Specialist
Accounting Specialist
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.
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.