项目

Minnesota Rural Electric Association provides a variety of training to electric cooperatives, collaborates with vendor members to support cooperative needs, and engages with cooperative member-owner families through our annual 青春之旅.
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教育

Minnesota Rural Electric Association provides member cooperatives with 教育al opportunities like new director training, 领导力培训, 和更多的.

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协作

We collaborate with vendors and partners to support our member electric cooperatives.

lineworker grew huddling with one man pointing

青春之旅

我们的 青春之旅 program, an opportunity for high school students to visit our nation’s capital, is one of many examples of how electric cooperatives support their local communities.

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教育

Minnesota Rural Electric Association provides member cooperatives with 教育al opportunities like new director training, 领导力培训, 和更多的.

 

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协作

We collaborate with vendors and partners to support our member electric cooperatives.

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青春之旅

我们的 青春之旅 program, an opportunity for high school students to visit our nation’s capital, is one of many examples of how electric cooperatives support their local communities.

transmission lines with sunset in background

教育

Minnesota Rural Electric Association provides member cooperatives with 教育al opportunities like new director training, 领导力培训, 和更多的.

lineworker grew huddling with one man pointing

协作

We collaborate with vendors and partners to support our member electric cooperatives.

lineworker grew huddling with one man pointing

青春之旅

我们的 青春之旅 program, an opportunity for high school students to visit our nation’s capital, is one of many examples of how electric cooperatives support their local communities.

青春之旅

For more than 50 years, electric cooperatives have sponsored the annual Rural Electric 青春之旅. High school students ages 16-18 are selected for a trip to Washington, D.C. to experience a firsthand look at how government works.

Participating electric cooperatives provide leadership, history, and fun. 青春之旅 attendees spend a day on Capitol Hill visiting with our senators and representatives, witnessing the profound grandeur of monuments to our most celebrated leaders, reflecting on the true cost of freedom by eyeing row upon row of white crosses at Arlington Cemetery, and experiencing what life was like on George Washington’s beloved Mount Vernon plantation.

 

“The Rural Electric 青春之旅 is a great avenue for youth to get involved both in the energy production and consumption of their community and in energy policy at a national level. It was a pleasure to meet with the students from southern Minnesota and to hear their thoughts on the renewable energy sources that will come to fruition during their lifetimes. I’m inspired by this future generation of leaders, and I hope to see more students in Washington as part of future Rural Electric 青春之旅s.”

州长蒂姆·沃尔兹

To be selected for the Washington D.C. youth tour, you must apply through the electric cooperative that serves your area of the state. Thirty-three of Minnesota’s electric cooperatives participate in the Washington 青春之旅. Each co-op has a unique application process and criteria to select the student or students to be sponsored as delegates. If you are a high school student age 16-18, please contact your local electric cooperative for eligibility requirements.

成员的教育

We provide our members extensive training and 教育 opportunities for every role at electric cooperatives. 我们的 areas of training include leadership, 管理, 金融, 监督, 客户服务, technical best practices, monthly onsite 安全ty meetings, apprenticeship certification, hands-on technical skills, 热线工作, 计量和更多.

教育 is one of the seven cooperative principles, and we strive to support Minnesota’s electric cooperatives with the knowledge they need to provide member-owners with reliable, 安全, and affordable electricity.

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学徒

我们的 lineworker apprenticeship program is an exciting opportunity to be a part of the solution for long-term grid reliability amid the clean energy transition.

From underground system design to understanding circuit fundamentals, apprentices learn the trade from experienced journeymen in the context of a member-owned, not-for profit electric cooperative.

为学徒, this means something different than working for an investor-owned or municipal utility— it means being a part of a cooperative business model. Guided by the history of serving a local need, electric cooperatives prioritize community service, 教育, 民主治理, independence and autonomy.

Designed to meet the federal and state Department of Labor requirements, the beat365中文官方网站 lineworker apprentice program is four years with the potential to test out in 1-2 years. Apprentices get hands-on learning under journeyman supervision. By the end of an apprenticeship, utility personnel are ready to 安全ly construct, 操作, and maintain the electric power system.

Those interested in pursuing a career in cooperative utility linework should have a sense of adventure, passion about their community, and no fear of heights. For more information or to enroll apprentices, 365beat中文网.

供应商成员

Supporting Minnesota’s electric cooperatives would not be possible without our vendor members. 我们的 vendor member program provides advertising and marketing opportunities along with conferences, trade shows and events for vendors to network with electric cooperative employees.

Click here to see our 会员目录 & 买家指南. 
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