Find Your Cooperative
Agralite Electric Cooperative
Counties served: Swift, Stevens, Big Stone and part of Pope
Year incorporated: 1939
Arrowhead Electric Cooperative, Inc.
Counties served: Cook and part of Lake
Year incorporated: 1953
BENCO Electric Cooperative
Counties served: Blue Earth, Nicollet, Faribault, LeSueur, parts of Brown, Martin, Freeborn, Sibley and Waseca
Year incorporated: 1935
Brown County Rural Electric Association
Counties served: Brown and parts of Nicollet, Sibley, Redwood and Blue Earth
Year incorporated: 1937
Cooperative Light & Power
Counties served: Lake County and part of St. Louis
Year incorporated: 1936
Crow Wing Power
Counties served: Crow Wing, Cass and Morrison
Year incorporated: 1937
Dakota Electric Association
Counties served: Dakota and portions of Goodhue, Rice, and Scott
Year incorporated: 1937
East Central Energy
Counties served: Aitkin, Benton, Chisago, Isanti, Kanabec, Mille Lacs, Morrison, Sherburne, Washington, Pine and Carlton in Minnesota; Douglas, Burnett and Washburn in Wisconsin
Year incorporated: 1936
Federated Rural Electric Association
Counties served: Jackson, Martin and parts of surrounding counties
Year incorporated: 1935
Goodhue County Cooperative Electric
Counties served: Goodhue, parts of Dodge, Dakota, Rice, Olmsted and Wabasha
Year incorporated: 1936
Itasca-Mantrap Cooperative Electrical Association
Counties served: Hubbard, Wadena, Cass, Becker and Clearwater
Year incorporated: 1939
Kandiyohi Power Cooperative
Counties served: Kandiyohi, parts of Swift, Chippewa, Stearns and Renville
Year incorporated: 1935
Lake Country Power
Counties served: Parts of Aitkin, Carlton, Cass, Itasca, Koochiching, Lake, Pine and St. Louis
Year incorporated: 1997
Lake Region Electric Cooperative
Counties served: Otter Tail, Wilkin and parts of surrounding counties
Year incorporated: 1937
McLeod Cooperative Power Association
Counties served: McLeod, Renville, Sibley, Carver, parts of Meeker, Wright and Kandiyohi
Year incorporated: 1935
Meeker Cooperative
Counties served: Meeker, Renville, McLeod, Kandiyohi, Wright and Stearns
Year incorporated: 1935
Mille Lacs Energy Cooperative
Counties served: Parts of Aitkin, Crow Wing and Mille Lacs
Year incorporated: 1939
Minnesota Valley Electric Cooperative
Counties served: Blue Earth, Carver, Dakota, LeSueur, Rice, Scott, Sibley, Hennepin and Waseca
Year incorporated: 1937
Nobles Electric Cooperative
Counties served: Nobles, Murray and parts of adjacent counties
Year incorporated: 1936
North Itasca Electric Cooperative
Counties served: Itasca, Beltrami and Koochiching
Year incorporated: 1940
Redwood Electric Cooperative
Counties served: Redwood, Brown, Murray, Lyon and Cottonwood
Year incorporated: 1937
Runestone Electric Cooperative
Counties served: Douglas, Pope, Grant, Stevens, Stearns, Otter Tail and Todd
Year incorporated: 1935
South Central Electric Association
Counties served: Watonwan, Cottonwood and portions of Blue Earth, Brown, Martin and Murray
Year incorporated: 1937
Stearns Electric Association
Counties served: Part of Stearns, Morrison, Todd, Pope, Douglas and Kandiyohi
Year incorporated: 1937
Steele-Waseca Cooperative Electric
Counties served: Rice, Waseca, Steele, Blue Earth, Dodge, Goodhue, Freeborn, Faribault and LeSueur
Year incorporated: 1936
Todd-Wadena Electric Cooperative
Counties served: Todd, Wadena and portions of Becker, Ottertail, Morrison, Cass, Hubbard and Douglas
Year incorporated: 1940
Wright-Hennepin Cooperative Electric Association
Counties served: Wright and western Hennepin
Year incorporated: 1937
What are cooperatives?
Electric cooperatives are independent electricity providers that are owned by the members they serve (you). They were formed in the mid-1930s to bring electric power to parts of America where larger, for-profit utilities were reluctant to operate. Because electric co-ops are owned by the members they serve, they are inherently transparent, accountable, service-driven, and do more for their communities than provide electricity. In short, co-ops are designed to put the community’s best interests over the bottom line. Learn how to get involved by finding your local cooperative!
What makes cooperatives better?
Co-ops are driven by the members they serve, as opposed to profit, which means they operate differently at their core—and by design. As a result, they do more than just power your toaster and send a bill. Instead, your local cooperative:
- Makes sure every member has a voice
- Provides reliable electricity at the lowest possible cost
- Gives money back to its members when revenues exceed costs
- Helps members manage their energy use and lower their bill
- Offers programs to save energy, save money and earn rebates
- Assists members with renewable energy projects
- Prepares for and responds to national disasters
- Supports initiatives that improve community life
What Our Members Say
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Connexus Member
I have been impressed by the level of professionalism, competency and extremely informative representatives I've had the pleasure of speaking with the past 35 days. Due to various reasons, I have had multiple interactions with a few representatives at Connexus Energy that were some of the most positive experiences I have ever had with a company. I have never been short on questions and I thoroughly tested their range of knowledge. I was completely amazed with their breath of knowledge and innate ability to anticipate the question behind the question; providing an answer to the original questions and going beyond to inform me of valuable and usable information. Thank you for your dedication to servicing the consumer needs.
CHERYL BUNES
Bovey, Minn.
I like that we have a vote for directors. We have an input with the leadership of the electric company. I like how the co-op treats us members – they give back to us in ways of having dinners, and letting us be a part that way. She’s attended the district member meetings many times… misses those this year in 2020. Likes the social time and information they receive at the district meetings. It’s so helpful. She really enjoys the social time. Lake Country Power keeps us informed of what the co-op is doing at the time and for future. Annual meetings too are good, and I always stay to the end for the prizes.
Hunter Wang
Dakota Electric
I’m new to the area and I needed to ask some questions regarding Dakota Electric’s services, off-peak power, and some other things. I left a message and got a call back from Mr. Mathwig. I can confidently say that I have rarely been treated with the respect, attention, and genuine care that I received from your employee. He absolutely went out of his way to help me, and ended up answering every query I had, in the end spending over 40 minutes on the phone with me. His library of knowledge is refreshing and quite awe-inspiring, given the caliber of employees we all too-often have the pleasure, displeasure rather, of coming into contact with these days. I would like to just reach out and let you know that you have a remarkable talent on your team, and his care for the person on the other end of the line is something you come across more than rarely. I know whatever he does in the future will be handled not just well, but better than anyone might imagine could be done. Please let me know if there is a formal way to nominate him for some award, or recognition. I have been more than impressed by Dakota Electric thus far, and this is obviously in no small way due to the above-the-bar employees you have.