News/Events

With the success of our first calendar contest, we are doing a 2019 calendar!  To enter the contest, please submit your scenic photos of Minnesota to us by October 1, 2018.  To see the winning entries for the 2018 calendar, click here..

If your photo is chosen for the calendar, you will receive a $25 electric bill credit.  

It’s Minnesota state law that before you start any project that requires digging, you must contact Gopher State One Call. This will allow you to not only you to follow the law, but could also help you to avoid costly underground utility damages or even deadly accidents. 

Call Gopher State One Call at 811 or 651-454-0002 or 800-252-1166

Phase II Panels Commissioned June 12.  There are still subscriptions left for members to own shares. This year the Board of Directors decided to build a second Community Solar Array, Phase II of our Community Solar Project.  It was built at our Swanberg Outpost site east of Pine River and commissioned in June.  To learn more about how you can own a share, click here.  To see the output of the Phase I array built in 2017 or Phase II built this year, click the Phase I or Phase II buttons in the top right hand corner of the page.

Last year Crow Wing Power prepared four substations in Crow Wing County for planting pollinator seeds to create habitat for butterflies and bees.  We’ve historically had grass growing around all of our substations, but decided the substations would provide excellent locations for pollinator perennial plants.  This year we are turning two substations in Morrison County into pollinator gardens with the co-sharing costs of Morrison County Soil and Water Conservation.  In the past few years, we’ve all read about the nearly extinct Minnesota native Rusty Patch bumble bee