Western Fuels is a premiere 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.

Founded in 1973, Western Fuels Association 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 intends to expand 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 over 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, as well and numerous others.

Western Fuels also represents your industry interests through active trade organization membership in Western Coal Traffic League, National Coal Transportation Association, America’s Power, and the National Mining Association.

We promote and protect member interest with volume-driven contracting, comprehensive and cost-effective fuel chain management, a time-tested staff, and the strength of collective advocacy.

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