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1966-1975

1966-1975: Growing pains eased with new office, power plant

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• January 1966 - Rural Minnesota News, a tabloid newspaper, serves co-op members through July 1993.

• March 14, 1968 - Approved first underground line construction, which was called "experimental." A contractor was hired to plow in the cable.

• 1969 - The Rural Electrification Administration instructs Federated to compare costs of building a new headquarters versus remodeling the power plant and selling the downtown office.

• September 19, 1971 (See Picture #1) - Members attended an Open House at Federated's new headquarters located about one mile south of Jackson. The building cost $252,000.

• 1973 - Hired an engineer that would be shared by four co-ops. This was the first sharing of an employee.

• 1973 - First all-electric grain dryer was installed on Federated's system.

• 1974 - Planning begins for the construction of the Coal Creek Power Plant near Bismarck, North Dakota, and for the direct current (DC) transmission line to deliver the power to Minnesota customers.

• 1974 (See Picture #2) - Cable Plow

• January 10-12, 1975 - This "Super Bowl" blizzard caused more outage hours (39,930) than an average year's worth of outages.