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Great River Energy offering annual scholarships to North Dakota students

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Great River Energy is offering scholarships for graduating seniors who are pursuing a four-year or vocational-technical degree in North Dakota. This year, up to six, $500-1,000 scholarships will be awarded to graduating seniors from the following North Dakota high schools: Applicants do not need to be related to a Great River Energy employee. Application deadline …

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Public invited to learn about Northland Reliability power line project, offer feedback at open houses

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Minnesota Power and Great River Energy will host a series of open houses in late January and early February where members of the public can learn more about the companies’ joint Northland Reliability Project. Minnesota Power, a utility division of ALLETE Inc. (NYSE: ALE), and Great River Energy, a wholesale electric power cooperative, plan to …

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Agreement signed to sell Midwest AgEnergy Group, LLC

Company news /

Midwest AgEnergy Group, LLC executed an agreement to sell 100% of Midwest AgEnergy to HLCP Ethanol Holdco, LLC (HLCP). Midwest AgEnergy is a biofuels enterprise of which Great River Energy is the majority owner. HLCP will assume ownership of Midwest AgEnergy and its associated businesses, including the Blue Flint and Dakota Spirit ethanol biorefineries as …

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Great River Energy earns third Great Place to Work Certification™ 

Company news, Employee news /

Great River Energy is proud to be Certified™ by Great Place to Work® for the third time. The prestigious award is based entirely on what current employees say about their experience working at Great River Energy. This year, 88% of employees said it’s a great place to work – that’s 31 points higher than the …

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Minnesota Power and Great River Energy to build transmission line to bolster electric reliability in northern Minnesota

Company news, Initiatives, Transmission /

Minnesota Power, a utility division of ALLETE Inc. (NYSE: ALE), and Great River Energy today announced their intent to build an approximately 150-mile, double-circuit 345-kV transmission line from northern Minnesota to central Minnesota near Becker that will support grid reliability in the Upper Midwest. The transmission line will run from Minnesota Power’s Iron Range Substation …

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Grid authorities issue warnings about summer energy demand

Company news, Power generation resources, Transmission /

Great River Energy has sufficient resources to serve its membership, but expected weather challenges may warrant added measures to maintain reliability of the larger grid Last week, the North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC) issued its 2022 Summer Reliability Assessment. In it, NERC — the United States’ authority on electric reliability — warned that several …

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Strong recovery follows trio of spring storms

Company news, Cooperatives, Member-owner cooperatives, Transmission /

Early May damage to the electric system included second-most damaging event in Great River Energy’s history Great River Energy is well on the road to recovery after three rounds of severe storms took a heavy toll on its power line system. According to WCCO-TV, the stretch of damaging, back-to-back severe storms Minnesota experienced on May …

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Internship program offers foot in the door to electric industry

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A new crop of college students will hit the ground running this month at Great River Energy, bringing with them new ideas and a drive to gain real-world working experience, as the cooperative’s summer internship program kicks off. The program offers interns several months of well-rounded, firsthand experience working alongside utility industry professionals at Great …

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