Dakota Valley Electric Cooperative is a public

utility cooperative A utility cooperative is a type of cooperative that is tasked with the delivery of a public utility such as electricity, water or telecommunications to its members. Profit (accounting), Profits are either reinvested for infrastructure or distrib ...

based in

Milnor John Willard Milnor (born February 20, 1931) is an American mathematician known for his work in differential topology, algebraic K-theory and low-dimensional holomorphic dynamical systems. Milnor is a distinguished professor at Stony Brook Univ ...

and

Edgeley, North Dakota Edgeley is a city in LaMoure County, North Dakota, United States. The population was 585 at the 2020 census. History Edgeley was founded in 1886 by Richard Sykes, a landowner from England who named it after Edgeley, Cheshire, where he was born ...

. It serves as the electric distribution utility in a portion of southeast

North Dakota North Dakota () is a U.S. state in the Upper Midwest, named after the Native Americans in the United States, indigenous Dakota people, Dakota Sioux. North Dakota is bordered by the Canadian provinces of Saskatchewan and Manitoba to the north a ...

. It receives power from the

Central Power Electric Cooperative Central Power Electric Cooperative is a North Dakota-based electrical generation and transmission electric cooperative, cooperative founded in 1949 and which is based in Minot, North Dakota. Central Power purchases power from Basin Electric Power C ...

. Dakota Valley was formed by a merger of the former James Valley Electric Cooperative based in Edgeley and the former RSR Electric Cooperative based in Milnor. In 2005, Dakota Valley entered into a resource-sharing agreement with its northern neighbor, Northern Plains Electric Cooperative, that allows it to function as one large cooperative while remaining two separate companies.

External links

Dakota Valley Electric Cooperative site

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