Beeta Riahi, Burnsville High School, recently returned from attending the Youth Leadership Council (YLC) in Washington D.C. Riahi was selected for YLC from among 35 high school students throughout Minnesota who all attended the National Rural Electric Cooperative Association’s (NRECA) Youth Tour conference in June. Being part of YLC presented an opportunity for Riahi to travel [...]

Two teachers from Elizabeth Ann Seton School in Hastings, recently returned from a teacher training course that provided practical hands-on tools for furthering the energy education of their students. Teachers Anne Burns, 5th grade, and Jane Lynch, 4th grade, attended “Energy Education in the Classroom” sponsored by Great River Energy, Maple Grove, and its 28 member [...]

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. and one student was selected to represent Minnesota on the Youth Leadership Council in July. Dakota Electric’s students joined more than 1,500 students from across the nation (35 total from Minnesota) for the 47th [...]

Dakota Electric Association members and their families should mark the date for the thirteenth-annual Member Appreciation Event on July 29 from 4 p.m. to 8 p.m. During the event, Dakota Electric Association provides complimentary admission to the Minnesota Zoo for all who purchase electricity from the cooperative. Tickets to the event were included in electric bills, [...]

Nineteen area high school students and five Inver Hills Community College students received scholarships this spring for their continuing education from Dakota Electric Association. The donation to local students totaled $24,600 and includes money for approximately 12 Dakota County Technical College students and about six Inver Hills Community College students who will be named in the [...]

More than 120 Dakota Electric Association members volunteered their time on May 1 to help work in Fort Snelling State Park as part of the eleventh annual, state-wide, Touchstone Energy GreenTouch day. Local electric cooperatives around the state of Minnesota helped organize 840 volunteers who worked more than 2,600 hours — armed with rakes, clippers, trash [...]

“Dakota Electric’s reliability is some of the best in the nation,” Greg Miller, president and CEO of Dakota Electric Association, told members at the cooperative’s Annual Meeting on April 8. Miller was referencing industry data that tracks utility reliability. Good weather helped the reliability indices, but ongoing planning, good system design and regular monitoring of aging [...]

Students from Dakota Electric Association’s service area participated in the Youth Co-op Leadership Conference hosted by Cooperative Network, Roseville, on March 15 and 16. More than 70 high school students from around Minnesota attended the two-day conference designed to help high school students gain a better understanding of the role and operation of cooperatives. They gained [...]

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 [...]

Five local high school students were recently selected to receive an all-expense-paid trip to Washington, D.C., sponsored by Dakota Electric Association. The winners are Magaly Ortiz Aucapina, Apple Valley High School; Hannah Anderson and Katherine Engstrom, both of Rosemount High School; Kendra Boyle Hoban, Cannon Falls High School; and Beeta Riahi, Burnsville High School. Dustin Davids, [...]