Steele-Waseca Cooperative Electric awarded $1,000 scholarships to 18 high school seniors who graduated this past school year.

Great River Energy’s 2025 sustainability report, “Powering Good,” is now available online.

As you read last month, the boards of Steele-Waseca and Goodhue County Cooperative Electric Association (GCCEA) made the decision to share a general manager. Beginning on July 1, I began filling that…

There’s plenty for cooperative member-owners to know about following the 2026 Minnesota legislative session affecting the energy that powers your home, farm or business.

The regional grid operator, MISO (Midcontinent Independent System Operator - see adjacent map), released results from its Planning Resource Auction for the upcoming Planning Year 2026-27.

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…

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-…