Press Release

Clint Birtzer of Rosemount recently won the Jay York Scholarship for $300 given by Nobles Cooperative Electric, Worthington. He was one of five students Dakota Electric Association sponsored to attend the National Rural Electric Cooperative Association’s (NRECA) Youth Tour in Washington, D.C. this summer. He was one of four selected from Minnesota for the York Scholarship. [...]

McGruff Safe Kids Identification kits for school children are now available from law enforcement agencies throughout Dakota County and nearby communities. Dakota Electric Association, a member-owned electric cooperative, provided local law enforcement agencies throughout Dakota County, Northfield and Cannon Falls with McGruff identification kits. Police officers will distribute the kits to classrooms if the teacher makes [...]

Ron Olson, Apple Valley, and Tyler Cram, Eagan, were the winners in the Minnesota Brighter Ideas CFL sweepstakes for Dakota Electric Association. Dakota Electric’s wholesale power supplier, Great River Energy, and its 28 member cooperatives sponsored the sweepstakes. Olson won a $500 gift card and Cram won a $100 gift card through the statewide sweepstakes by [...]

Dakota Electric Association Community Relations Director Peggy Johnson recently presented a check for nearly $900 to Mary Ajax, president and CEO of 360 Communities. The money was provided from the generous donations of Dakota Electric members who attended the cooperative’s Member Appreciation Event at the end of July. While providing a complementary night at the Minnesota [...]

Two local teachers recently returned from a teacher training course that provided practical hands-on tools for furthering the energy education of their students. Teachers Donald Blumenstein, 6-8th grades at Scott Highlands Middle School, and Monica Foss, K-5th grade at Cedar Park Elementary, attended “Energy Education in the Classroom” sponsored by Great River Energy, Maple Grove, and [...]

Due to continued hot weather and recent storms, Dakota Electric Association is asking its members to conserve electricity today. Please voluntarily conserve energy use today between noon and 10 p.m. This is not an energy emergency, and people do not need to turn off air conditioning. Dakota Electric and its power supplier, Great River Energy, are [...]

Five students from local high schools in and around Dakota Electric Association’s service territory recently returned from a trip-of-a-lifetime to Washington D.C. Dakota Electric’s students joined more than 1,500 students from across the nation (35 total from Minnesota) for the 48th annual National Rural Electric Cooperative Association (NRECA) Rural Electric Youth Tour held June 11-16. Dakota [...]

Dakota Electric Association donated more than 7,400 tree seedlings this spring, as it wraps up a full schedule of assisting with community plantings and environmental events throughout its service territory. Each spring, Dakota Electric participates in a variety of Arbor Day and environmental events by donating seedlings and providing educational information and assistance. Part of Dakota [...]

More than 110 Dakota Electric Association members volunteered their time on May 7 to clear brush at the Minnesota Valley National Wildlife Refuge in Bloomington as part of the twelfth annual, state-wide, Touchstone Energy GreenTouch day. Local electric cooperatives around the state of Minnesota helped organize 545 volunteers who worked more than 1,800 hours — armed [...]

Dakota Electric Association and its wholesale power supplier, Great River Energy, are seeking teachers interested in receiving tools to make energy education part of their curriculum. Through hands-on activities and class discussions, K-12 teachers will learn how to enhance students' understanding of what energy is, where it comes from, and how it affects their lives when [...]