Steele-Waseca Cooperative Electric 2026 Annual Meeting updates and photos.

The new substation in Medford is really about one thing-making sure the community has the power capacity it needs today and into the future.

SWCE lineworkers have begun using grounding flags on junction boxes, switches and transformers for underground lines to serve as critical high-visibility warnings.

An evolving industry landscape is reshaping how electricity is made, moved and used, which means the power grid used to deliver that electricity needs to change, too.

This will be my last general manager column as I am retiring on June 30th of this year.

Great River Energy submitted its integrated resource plan (IRP), April 1, to the Minnesota Public Utilities Commission, outlining a long-term strategy to reliably and affordably serve its 26 member-…

Consolidating an Electric Cooperative: Strategic Considerations, Benefits, and Challenges

Steele-Waseca Cooperative Electric will be represented at the 2026 Youth Tour in Washington, D.C., by Connor Louks, a sophomore at New Richland-Hartland-Ellendale-Geneva High School, and Leighton…

Retired Steele-Waseca Cooperative Electric Board Director Gerri Lienke died of cancer Saturday, April 18, at the age of 78.

BILLING NOTICE: members who had their billing from the 12th of the previous month to the 12th of the current month will see their billing period change to the 1st of the month to the last day of the…

Steele-Waseca Cooperative Electric will be conducting their annual meeting Tuesday, June 2, at their headquarters in Owatonna. The co-op’s 90th annual meeting will be starting at 10:30 a.m., at 2411…

SWCE linemen are trying out a new visual safety system. It’s called pi-lit Sequential safety flares. These flares will replace the safety triangle and can be used under the safety cones, on top of…