Draft:Dairyland Power Cooperative

Dairyland Power Cooperative (Dairyland) is an American energy company formed in December 1941 by the merging of two of the nation's earliest generation and transmission cooperatives: Wisconsin Power Cooperative and Tri-State Cooperative. Headquartered in La Crosse, Wis., Dairyland provides the wholesale electrical requirements for 24 distribution cooperatives and 27 municipal utilities in a four-state service area (Wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa, Illinois).

According to the National Rural Electric Cooperative Association, electric cooperatives serve 56 percent of the U.S. landmass, which includes 42 million people. Electric cooperatives are not-for-profit organizations and returned more than $1.4 billion in capital credits to their members in 2021.

Generation resources
Dairyland Power Cooperative provides its members and power supply customers with electricity via generation resources that it owns and operates, including: hydroelectric, natural gas, coal, landfill gas wind and solar generation. Dairyland sells all the electricity it generates and purchases all of its electricity needs from the Midcontinent Independent System Operator - one of nine regional transmission/independent system operators in North America.

Dairyland is exploring small modular nuclear reactors (SMR), pumped hydro storage and long-term energy (battery) storage technologies for future electricity generation.