Press Release

Dakota Electric Association recently awarded $10,000 from unclaimed capital credits to go toward specific needs within four different school districts. Superintendents and representatives from Cannon Falls, Northfield, Randolph and Red Wing attended a recent Dakota Electric board meeting to receive the donations. Cannon Falls will use the money to purchase equipment to enhance its STEAM program [...]

Dakota Electric Association recently awarded Jamie Elvestad, Farmington, the Township Leader of the Year award. Each year, Dakota Electric seeks to recognize outstanding leadership with the award, and Dakota Electric Director Jerry Pittman attended a recent Dakota County Township Officers Association meeting to present the award to Elvestad. Elvestad has been an Empire Township Supervisor since [...]

Dakota Electric Association was recently nominated for the National Rural Electric Cooperative Association’s (NRECA) Cooperative Purpose Award. The award, new in 2015, recognizes cooperatives for their efforts at improving the quality of life for their members and communities.  “The award will go to a co-op for working with its membership to make outstanding contributions that result [...]

Dakota Electric Association had a total of 7,081 people attend the company’s 18th annual Member Appreciation Event at the Minnesota Zoo on July 30. During the event, zoo admission was free to all Dakota Electric members and their families.    As part of the event, Dakota Electric, a member-owned cooperative, asked attendees to bring food donations [...]

UDPATE: Call in if still out of power FARMINGTON, Minn. (7 p.m., July 18, 2015) — Dakota Electric Association crews continue to work on the remaining outages after last night’s storm. Less than 30 are still out of power and everyone should be on tonight.  Member who are currently still out of power are urged to [...]

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 1,600 students from across the nation (41 from Minnesota) for the 51st annual National Rural Electric Cooperative Association (NRECA) Rural Electric Youth Tour held June 13-18. Dakota Electric Association awarded the students the [...]

Dakota Electric Association donated more than 5,100 tree seedlings this spring, as it wraps up a full schedule of assisting with community plantings and environmental events throughout its service territory. Each year, Dakota Electric participates in a variety of Arbor Day and environmental events by donating seedlings and providing educational information and assistance. This year, Dakota [...]

Providing quality service to the member-owners, outstanding reliability, new solar initiatives and innovations in power generation were 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 30. President and CEO Greg Miller discussed actions taken by Dakota Electric to help keep [...]

Dakota Electric Association along with Lakeville Friends of the Environment invite the public to learn more about residential solar installations at the Solar Vendor Fair, April 22. This Earth Day event will provide the public the opportunity to learn about many aspects of producing power through solar. This free, informal vendor tradeshow will feature local solar [...]

Five local high school students were recently selected to receive a trip to Washington, D.C., sponsored by Dakota Electric Association. The winners are Samson Ghirmai, Jessica Kostecki and Megan Smith, Apple Valley High School, Patrick Hartshorn, Lakeville North High School; Tanner Ruppe, Northfield High School. The students will participate in the National Rural Electric Association’s (NRECA) [...]