The City of Baudette provides electric, water, sewer, and refuse service to its customers. 

The City of Baudette is one of 12-city members of the Northern Municipal Power Agency.  NMPA not only supplies power to its member cities but also owns a 30 percent share of the Coyote Station located near Beulah, North Dakota and a load-ratio share of the Minnkota Power Cooperative, Inc. transmission system.  Minnkota is the operating agent for NMPA and purchases capacity and energy from the Coyote Station not required by NMPA members.

The City of Baudette provides drinking water to its residents from a groundwater source: one  well ranging from 101 to 151 feet deep draw water from the Quaternary Buried Artesian aquifer.  The wells are located ½ mile west of Baudette on the north side of State Highway 11.  The wells were drilled and put into service in 1996.  The average daily capacity is 185,000 gallons with the highest daily capacity at 372,000 gallons.  The new Water tower is located on the West end of town

The City of Baudette’s sanitary sewer system consists of both gravity and force mains, seven lift stations, and a three-cell stabilization pond system.  The facility has a controlled discharge to the Rainy River and is designed to treat an average wet weather flow of 266,000 gallons per day.  Primary cells 1 and 2 have surface areas of approximately 24 acres and 8.3 acres respectively at an operating depth of 2.5 feet.  The secondary cell has a surface area of 15.6 acres at an operating depth of 3.4 feet.  The pond system has the total storage capacity of 56,400,000 gallons and is designed to provide a total detention time of 212 days.  The ponds are located on the northwest side of the city.

The City contracts with Walleye Capital Sanitation for weekly refuse pick-up.  Recyclables are collected the first Wednesday of each month.

Utility services are administered through the City Office located at 106 Main Street W. 
Office hours: Monday – Friday, 8:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.
Mailing address:  PO Box 548   Baudette, MN  56623
Telephone:  218-634-1850  Fax:  218-634-2942

The utility maintenance building is located at 219 8th Avenue SE.
Office hours: Monday – Friday, 7:30 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.
Mailing address:  PO Box 548  Baudette, MN  56623
Telephone:  218-634-2432  Fax:  218-634-9777

The Next Generation Act of 2007 requires distribution utilities to adopt annual goals to reduce their gross retail energy sales.  We are required to have programs in place that will demonstrate a kilowatt-hour savings of 1.5% of kilowatt-hours sold.  The overall message is to encourage cooperatives and municipal utilities to take a proactive role in energy efficiency and conservation.  In order to achieve the mandates included in this legislation, the City of Baudette has joined the other members of the Minnkota system and hired an energy and conservation consulting firm—Franklin Energy—to aid in the development and implementation of a number of conservation and energy efficiency programs.

On the residential side there is a rebate program for implementing energy savings in the areas of lighting, wash machines, hot water heaters, heating, ventilation, air conditioning, and geothermal measures.On the commercial side there is a rebate program for implementing energy savings in the areas of heating, cooling, air conditioning, and lighting. Applications for these programs are available at the City office or at the link below . Please keep in mind that certain criteria and rules for receiving the new rebates must be met.  Some of the rebates require prior approval so be sure to review the rebate form prior to starting your project.

In addition, note that there are many incentives relating to weatherization and home energy efficiency through the federal stimulus and the State of Minnesota. Residents are encouraged to go to www.energystar.gov .  Information that is specific to Minnesota can be found at www.staywarm.mn.gov .