The duty of the nominating committee is to select, propose and post a list of candidates for director for the followingdistricts: District 4 – Incumbent Mary Rahier – 3 year term District 5 – Incumbent Lloyd Kongsjord – 3 year term District 6 – Incumbent Todd Christensen – 3 year term If you are interested […]
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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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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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Hello-December is cruising right along! It’s the 11th as I’m writing this. I’m sure it seems to fly because of allthe extra work of getting everything done and getting ready for Christmas.I love this time of year, it truly is magical, with all the lights and decorations. We like to drive arounddifferent areas to just […]
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 […]
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