The heavy wet snow is causing outages for Dakota Electric Association and its members. The very wet snow is weighing down branches and causing them to contact power lines. As of 1:30 p.m., Dakota Electric has more than 5,000 members out of power. All available crews are out, but it could take well into the night [...]

Dakota Electric Association recently awarded Donald Marthaler, Randolph Township Supervisor, the Township Leader of the Year award. Each year, Dakota Electric seeks to recognize outstanding leadership with the award. Marthaler has been the Randolph Township supervisor for 30 years and has served on the Randolph Fire Department for 26 years, 5 years as chief. He has [...]

Dakota Electric Association members in the market for new appliances have until the end of October to claim a large rebate for the purchase of a qualified ENERGY STAR® refrigerator or clothes washer. Members can receive $125 off an Energy Star refrigerator with recycling of the replaced unit, and/or they can save $75 off an Energy [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]