Our Story
Dakota Electric serves more than 100,000 members throughout Dakota County and bordering regions of Goodhue, Scott and Rice counties. We are the second largest electric cooperative in Minnesota and ranked among the 25 largest electric distribution cooperatives in the nation. Dakota Electric purchases wholesale electricity from Great River Energy, a generation and transmission cooperative in Maple Grove, Minn.
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Dakota Electric Association’s page is intended to serve as an informative community page where you can learn about co-op news, promotions, events, energy tips and large outages and restoration efforts. We invite you to comment and ask questions on our wall, though Dakota Electric may not respond to every posting.
This page will generally be monitored by Dakota Electric staff a couple of times a day during regular business hours, unless there is a large outage or other event requiring frequent communication and updates. Dakota Electric does not endorse, nor are we responsible for the accuracy of information, opinions, claims or advice shared by other Facebook users.
This is not a place to report an outage, electrical emergency or unsafe condition. If you are currently experiencing an outage or see an unsafe condition, please call Dakota Electric’s 24-hour outage and emergency service line at 651-463-6201 or 1-800-430-9722 and have the telephone number associated with your account available.
Although Dakota Electric has no obligation to monitor postings on this page, we reserve the right, in our sole discretion, to remove postings that:
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