Meet the 2025 MWEC Annual Meeting Speaker: Todd Brickhouse

Todd Brickhouse, chief executive officer and general manager, joined Basin Electric Power Cooperative in 2022 as its senior vice president and chief financial officer. He was named chief executive officer and general manager in December 2023. Brickhouse leads a team of nearly 1,800 employees who work to provide value to the cooperative’s membership by providing affordable and reliable power, products and services produced in a safe and environmentally responsible manner.

Basin Electric’s service territory includes 3 million consumers across nine states in the Upper Midwest, Great Plains and Rocky Mountain regions. Basin Electric’s largest subsidiary, Dakota Gasification Company (DGC), operates the Great Plains Synfuels Plant, a coal gasification facility which produces synthetic natural gas and 12 additional products. DGC captures and sequesters approximately 2 million metric tons of carbon dioxide annually.

Brickhouse started working in the utility industry at Old Dominion Electric Cooperative in 2000 and served as Old Dominion’s vice president and treasurer from 2010-22. He spent his early career in the financial services industry and has a background in securities trading, investment banking and investment management.

Brickhouse holds a bachelor’s degree in economics and business from the Virginia Military Institute.