Electric cooperatives have been innovators in rural America for decades, starting when farmers and other rural leaders banded together to deliver not-for-profit electric service in the countryside during the 1930s and 40s. For Minnesota Valley Electric Cooperative, serving portions of Blue Earth, Carver, Dakota, Le Sueur, Rice, Scott, Sibley, Hennepin and Waseca Counties, that historic trend to innovate has delivered a unique charging program for electric vehicles.
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