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Leadership talks safety with Great River Energy employees

Two members of Great River Energy’s leadership team recently set out to talk safety with field employees.  The purpose of the visits was to gain a better understanding about work happening in the field, provide an opportunity for employees to share challenges or ask questions, and for employees to highlight safety improvements they have identified […]

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Preparing for severe weather

Severe Weather Awareness Week is designed to refresh, remind and educate everyone about the seasonal threats from severe weather and how to avoid them. It’s also a great time to make and practice your emergency plan, refresh your emergency preparedness kit and revisit what to do should you encounter a downed power line. Severe Weather Awareness Week is April 17-21 in Minnesota, and a statewide tornado drill

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Membership pays

Great River Energy returned $25 million to members in the latest cash payout from the not-for-profit cooperative. Great River Energy and its member-owners are cooperatives. The don’t sell energy to customers. They provide electric service to members. Members get to vote in cooperative elections. Members can run for the board of directors. Members also have

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‘It opened some eyes’: Minnesota co-ops host local first responders for EV safety training

When Stearns Electric Association wanted to attract a crowd of firefighters, police officers and other first responders to its warehouse for three hours of electric vehicle (EV) safety training on a Wednesday night last fall, the co-op relied on two powerful tools to drum up interest: its communications team and free food. The cooperative —

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Great River Energy delivers on its triple bottom line in 2022

Like all cooperatives, Great River Energy strives to provide great, affordable service and meet the needs of its membership. Electricity is being produced in new ways and cooperative members are finding different ways to use that electricity in their homes and businesses. Great River Energy and its member-owners have adapted remarkably to both trends. They

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Employee event emphasizes co-op’s safety culture

Great River Energy recently hosted a Safety Day event for transmission employees who work in safety-sensitive positions. Safety Day is time set aside for learning and continuing to build and strengthen Great River Energy’s strong safety culture.   Jonathan Geiger, leader of power system protection at Great River Energy, attended the day-long event and said he

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Being a good neighbor: Employee honored for helping woman in need of medical attention

Great River Energy’s Logan Bell, relay technician and electrician, was driving on County Road 12 near one of the cooperative’s substations on an icy January morning when he came upon a car that slid off the road and rolled into a pine tree. He stopped to check on potential occupants in the vehicle and found

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