Press Release

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, [...]

Kids ‘n Kinship, Apple Valley, accepted the 2010 statewide Minnesota’s Touchstone Energy Community Award during the Minnesota Rural Electric Association’s annual meeting in St. Paul on March 1. Jan Belmore, Kids ‘n Kinship director, accepted the award in front of the audience of electric cooperative board and staff members. “We are thankful for this award,” Belmore [...]

Dakota Electric Association will hold its Annual Meeting on Thursday, April 8, at St. Michael’s Catholic Church social hall at 22120 Denmark Ave., Farmington (next to Dakota Electric’s office). The meeting begins at 7 p.m.; doors open at 6 p.m., and refreshments will be served before the meeting. Dakota Electric members will have the opportunity to [...]

Dakota Electric Association distributed a total of $29,295 in 2009 through its Helping Neighbors® program to the Community Action Program, The Salvation Army and 360 Communities (formerly the Community Action Council) for local energy assistance. In 2009, Dakota Electric members donated nearly $1,000 more than last year. The extra money is welcomed by the agencies as [...]

Dakota Electric Association will provide five high school juniors or seniors the opportunity to win an all-expense-paid trip to Washington, D.C. as part of the National Rural Electric Cooperative Association’s (NRECA) Youth Tour, June 12-17. Each June, more than 1,200 junior and senior students from across the country travel to Washington, D.C. for the NRECA Youth [...]