GRE clean energy transition brings era of rate stability
9 Nov 2021
News, Lake Country Power
REGIONAL— The power supplier for most rural electric cooperatives in Minnesota, including Lake Country Power, will be reducing the price of its wholesale power as it transitions rapidly away from coal as its primary source of energy.
Even at a time when prices are rising for many other products and sources of energy, Great River officials say they see rate stability in the foreseeable future for most of the 28 member cooperatives it serves across most of Minnesota. That includes Lake Country Power, which serves an 11,000-square-mile region with 43,000 customers.
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