Two teachers from the local area attended the Rachel’s Challenge Educational Summit in Dallas, Texas, June 23-25, through a sponsorship provided by Dakota Electric Association. Jennifer Chappuis, Cannon Falls, District 252, and Lisa Sammlar,  North Trail Elementary, District 192, learned strategies to replace bullying and violent behavior with kindness and respect. Rachel’s Challenge, a non-profit organization [...]

Five area high school students, sponsored by Dakota Electric Association, recently returned from a Washington D.C. trip-of-a-lifetime. Dakota Electric’s students joined more than 1,700 students from across the nation (40 from Minnesota) for the 52nd annual National Rural Electric Cooperative Association (NRECA) Rural Electric Youth Tour held June 11-16. Dakota Electric Association awarded the students the [...]

Dakota Electric Association members and their families should mark the date for the nineteenth-annual Member Appreciation Event on July 28 from 4 p.m. to 8 p.m. During the event, Dakota Electric provides complimentary admission to the Minnesota Zoo for those who purchase electricity from the cooperative. Tickets to the event were included in recent electric bills, [...]

FARMINGTON, Minn. (9:00 a.m., July 6, 2016) — Dakota Electric Association crews have been working hard all night restoring outages that have occurred after a severe storm moved through Minnesota. Dakota Electric experienced outages totaling more than 3,000 accounts scattered all across the service territory with the hardest hit area being the city of Burnsville. Crews [...]

FARMINGTON, Minn. (12:00 p.m., July 6, 2016) — Dakota Electric Association crews finished up repairs before noon today, restoring the last of the more than 3,000 accounts that were out of power due to yesterday’s storm that moved through Minnesota. The outages were scattered throughout the service territory with the hardest hit area being the city [...]

Approximately 85 Dakota Electric Association members volunteered their time on May 7 at Whitetail Woods Regional Park in Empire Township as part of the annual, statewide, Touchstone Energy GreenTouch day. The volunteers of all ages planted nearly 1,000 trees of multiple varieties in the 456-acre park, which opened September 2014. The young trees will eventually provide [...]

Youth baseball players have an opportunity to learn baseball from staff at the Minnesota Twins organization during their visit to Farmington on May 14. Boys and girls from the ages of 6 to 13 can participate in the 2016 Play Ball! Minnesota Youth Clinic, which teaches basic fundamentals including hitting, fielding and throwing. No registration is [...]

Providing quality service to the member-owners, outstanding electric reliability, lower energy sales and a new smartphone outage application were just a few of the topics discussed at Dakota Electric Association’s Annual Meeting, held in the social hall at St. Michael’s in Farmington on April 28. President and CEO Greg Miller discussed causes for lower energy sales [...]

Results from Dakota Elections recent election for directors are as follows: Read article about annual meeting.  District 1  David Jones*  6,791  District 2  Jim Sheldon*  6,781  District 3  Bill Holton*  4,518  Ray Yarwood  1,521  Douglas Bonar  1,129  District 4  Paul Trapp*  3,564  Greg Oxley  2,400  Jerry Brown  1,301  

Learn about solar and electric vehicles at local event Dakota Electric Association, along with Lakeville Friends of the Environment, invite the public to learn more about residential solar installations and electric vehicles at the Energy Trends Expo, May 3. This free informal vendor expo will feature local solar installers and electric vehicle experts who can provide [...]