Deer River to Jesse Lake 69-kV transmission line rebuild and reroute Great River Energy, wholesale power supplier to North-Itasca Electric Cooperative and Lake Country Power, is proposing to rebuild and relocate portions of its 69-kV transmission line between Deer River and Jessie Lake. Construction is scheduled for early 2025. As a landowner along the project […]
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Remarks at the annual meeting by Brad Dolinski, CEO: Thank you for coming to the annual meeting today. Thank you to the community of Northome for hosting us! Thanks to Shining Light Café for providing us a little treat after the meeting is done. I want to recognize several people. Our operations department, thank you […]
Wecome to Kindergarten!!!

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: from the Director of Community Education – Itasca Area Community Education Grand Rapids, Minn. – On April 25, 2023 the Grand Rapids and Bigfork elementary schools invited incoming kindergarten students from around the district into schools for the annual Kindergarten Round-Up. Over 225 future kindergarten students and their families were in attendance. […]
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Great afternoon NIECI! Phew! We made it through a long winter! The boats are rolling into and through town like crazy. I’m guessing many of us have neighbors back that we haven’t seen for a while. I’m getting geared up for our annual fishing trips. I don’t go out on opener, it’s a little too […]
Message from the Board Chair
by Larry Salmela Director Elections One of the most important principles of a cooperative organization is member control. Most businesses of any appreciable size in the United States are stock corporations. Owning the stock of a corporation enables control of the corporation. More control comes with owning a greater percentage of the total stock issued […]
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Happy Spring NIECI! At least I hope so by the time you read this. Yet again Mother Nature and Ol’ Man Winter are planning another visit. We are expecting another 6-12” here in Bigfork as I write this. I’m ready for open water season. I’m ready for our friends and neighbors to come back to […]
Operation Round-Up spring grants

The North Itasca Community Trust Board trustees met in April to distribute Operation Round-Up® funds for community-based projects which help Members in the cooperative’s service territory. Awards are listed on p. 6. A total of $13,600 was distributed to help 33 separate projects for childrens’ programs, safety equipment, township repairs and more. Since the program began […]
Rates, reliability, environmental stewardship

Great River Energy delivers on its triple bottom line in 2022 North Itasca Electric’s membership is a network of individuals, families, farmers and business owners like you who own part of the company that supplies electricity to your community. Similarly, North Itasca Electric is a member of GRE. North Itasca Electric not only receives wholesale […]
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Good afternoon, Looks like ol’ man winter got quite comfortable around North Itasca. We got a good shot of snow this past weekend, and we’re supposed to get another this week. I’m already dreaming of warmer weather. I want to hit the woods on the wheelers, lakes in the boat, and start complaining about the […]
North Itasca Electric Cooperative Scholarships

North Itasca Electric Cooperative – Northome Scholarship Association Scholarships are now available to high school seniors whose parents/guardians are North Itasca Electric customers or North Itasca Electric customers who are non-traditional college age who are returning to school. Please use one of the two applications below. North Itasca Electric Cooperative High School Student Scholarship Application […]
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