News & Information
Rother wins Dakota Electric’s Township Leader award
Dakota Electric Association recently awarded Maralee Rother, Castle Rock, the Township Leader of the Year award. Each year, Dakota Electric seeks to recognize outstanding leadership with the award, and Dakota Electric Director Margaret Schreiner presented […]
Birtzer wins cooperative scholarship
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 […]
Dakota Electric provides McGruff safety kits for children
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 […]
Eagan and Apple Valley residents wins CFL sweepstakes
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 […]
360 Communities receives check for food
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 […]
Teachers attend energy training
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, […]
Peak Alert
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, […]
Local students return from Washington D.C. trip
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 […]
Dakota Electric finishes busy spring of environmental activity
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 […]
GreenTouch Day volunteers do 300 hours of work
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 […]
