MN Electric Co-ops Send Lineworkers to Aid Power Restoration After Hurricane
Minnesota continues helping in the recovery efforts in the aftermath of Hurricane Helene.
In addition to National Guard members and crews from Xcel Energy, 80 line workers from 18 electric cooperatives across the state have been sent to help restore power after the hurricane caused outages to more than 1.25 million cooperative members in the southeastern United States.
Mass devastation and outages have impacted cooperatives in Florida, Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, Kentucky, Tennessee and Virginia.
Co-op veterans of 40+ years are calling this “unprecedented,” “catastrophic,” “worst damage in the history of the cooperative.”
Cooperatives that have sent support (so far) include:
- Beltrami Electric Cooperative, Beltrami
- Clearwater-Polk Electric Cooperative, Bagley
- Cooperative Light and Power Association, Two Harbors
- Connexus Energy, Ramsey
- East Central Energy, Braham
- Freeborn Mower, Albert Lea
- McLeod Cooperative Power, Glencoe
- Meeker Cooperative Light & Power, Litchfield
- MiEnergy Cooperative, Rushford
- Mille Lacs Energy Cooperative, Aitkin
- Minnesota Valley Electric Cooperative, Jordan
- People’s Energy Cooperative, Oronoco
- Red Lake Electric Cooperative, Red Lake Falls
- Runestone Electric, Alexandria
- Stearns Electric Association, Melrose
- Steel-Waseca Cooperative Electric, Owatonna
- Todd Wadena Electric Cooperative, Wadena
- Wright-Hennepin Cooperative Electric, Rockford
