Wishing All Our Members a Lucky March! The office personnel have been BUSY with the upcoming yearly audit! We would like to welcome our New CFO Dan. He has us “Thinking Outside the Box”: How to be more efficient, cut costs and still provide personal service to you, the Members. Our biggest obstacle is moving […]
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Spring Round Up grant deadline March 31
Thanks to the generosity of nearly 85% of the Members of North Itasca Electric Co-op., the Board of Trustees for Operation Round-Up will have approximately $11,000.00 to distribute to various communities and organizations in the area. The deadline for grant applications is Tuesday, March 31 at the close of day. Application forms along with instructions […]
Plan ahead for road construction
2026 will be an important year for road construction in this area with a major state project on Highway 6 causing a five-month detour. Bridge No. 31036 over the Big Fork River (where County State Aid Highway (CSAH) 14 joins Highway 6) will be completely replaced with a detour running from June to November, according […]
Highway 6 Transmission Line Construction
by Sally Sedgwick When Great River Energy’s engineering group looks at local transmission lines feeding its 26 rural electric cooperatives, it rates the line looking at a number of maintenance points: age, cost to repair vs. replace, number of bad poles, access and more. A few years ago, the main Highway 6 transmission feed to […]
GRE holds town hall on future energy plans
by Sally Sedgwick Great River Energy brought a town hall to Grand Rapids in January to discuss the cooperative’s Integrated Resource Plan with members. The plan is required by the state every two years and describes GRE’s projected power supply plans for the next 15 years. It’s not a quick summary: this year’s IRP might […]
The power surge factors driving the rising demand for electricity.
Article provided by the National Rural Electric Cooperative Association Across the U.S., the demand for power is climbing at one of the fastest rates in decades. As the economy becomes more reliant on electricity and data centers continue to sprout up in many parts of the country, electric cooperatives are preparing to meet the challenges […]
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CEO Report
by Brad Dolinksi, CEO Happy blustery Sunday NIECI, Sounds like Ol’ Man Winter is looking to challenge our winter grit this week. I was looking at the forecast, and I saw the dreaded 30 below zero next weekend. That kind of weather is dangerously cold! It is also dangerously boring; I refuse to do much […]
Polar Revue
GridEx VIII puts GRE to the test!
National grid exercise simulates wildfires, ice storms and sabotageGridEx VIII puts GRE to the test Practice makes perfect. That was the mantra last month at Great River Energy as the two-day GridEx VIII crisisexercise simulated several emergencies, including a substation fire, cybersecurity breach, wildfire, winter stormand widespread power outage.GridEx, the electricity industry’s largest cyber and […]
CEO Report
Good evening, North Itasca! By the time you read this the holiday season will be over. I hope you all had time together with friends and family. If Santa dropped off some new fishing gear, it looks like a good year for the lakes around the area. I threaten to go fishing more every year, […]
