Minnesota
Therese LaCanne
tlacanne@grenergy.com
763-445-5710
North Dakota
Lyndon Anderson
landerson1@grenergy.com
701-442-7036
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Great River Energy will say farewell to two long-tenured, respected leaders with the June retirements of Rick Lancaster and Kandace Olsen. “Rick and Kandace have made lasting contributions to Great River Energy’s success,” said President and Chief Executive Officer David Saggau. “As sad as it will be to see them retire, they both have prepared their […]
“Member Moment” highlights one of Great River Energy’s member-owner cooperatives and how they uniquely demonstrate what it means to be a cooperative. Minnesota earned the nickname of “Land of 10,000 Lakes” and it has Otter Tail County to thank for over 1,000 of those, which is more lakes than any other county in the country […]
Anyone interested in learning more about electric vehicles (EV) was invited by McLeod Cooperative Power, one of Great River Energy’s 28 member-owner cooperatives, to attend a ride and drive event held May 2. About 50 people attended the educational event in the parking lot of Crow River Winery, located near Hutchinson, Minn., to kick the […]
What used to take four months of an intern’s time now takes 10 minutes. “Interns used to be assigned to manually run calculations on our lines to determine the incident energy for transmission line arc flash hazards,” said Melissa Phillips, Great River Energy engineer and intern mentor. “These reports would take a typical intern four […]
Great River Energy shared its message of electrification with cooperatives across the nation at the 2019 CONNECT Conference, hosted by the National Rural Electric Cooperative Association (NRECA). Communications Leader Daniel Becchetti presented about Great River Energy and its member-owner cooperatives’ efforts to spur the adoption of electric vehicles. Becchetti detailed the Revolt program, Plug Into […]