Great River Energy
As an electric distribution cooperative, Todd-Wadena purchases more than 80 percent of its wholesale power from Great River Energy (GRE), a generation and transmission cooperative headquartered in Elk River, Minnesota. Michael Thorson serves as Todd-Wadena's representative on the GRE board of directors.

Great River Energy generates electricity at its power plants and transmits that power to Todd-Wadena and 27 other electric cooperatives. GRE is Minnesota’s second largest electric utility, providing power for more than 1.5 million people in the rural two-thirds of the state. Great River Energy’s electric generation facilities include:

Generation Capacity
Coal Creek Station, Underwood, ND - Coal - 1,116 Megawatts(MW)
Stanton Station, Stanton, ND - Coal - 188 MW

Peaking Plants
Lakefield Junction, Martin County, MN - Natural Gas - 494 MW
Pleasant Valley, Mower County, MN - Natural Gas - 415 MW

Also: St. Bonifacius (53 MW), Rock Lake (20 MW), Maple Lake (19 MW), Cambridge (21 MW), Rock Lake (20 MW), Arrowhead Station (18 MW)

Renewables:
Trimont Area Wind Farm - Great River Energy purchases 100 MW from this wind project in southwestern Minnesota. It was the state's first commercial- scale, landowner-developed wind farm.

Prairie Star Wind - These 61 Vestas turbines are located in southeastern Minnesota. GRE purchases another 100 MW from this wind farm.

Other: Other wind purchases are made from wind farms in Jack, Dodge and Murray counties. 

Elk River Station - This plant turns garbage into fuel. It combusts about 1000 tons of refuse per day, reducing more than 300,000 tons of landfill waste annually. 180,000 Mwhs are produced each year at the Elk River, MN, plant.

Wind Purchases: 18MW from projects in Dodge Center and Jackson County, Minnesota.

Wellspring - To date, more than 4,300 members from GRE cooperatives, including about 70 Todd-Wadena members, purchase Wellspring Wind Energy. The wind energy for the program comes from nine giant turbines at the Chandler Hills Wind Farm that generate 6 megawatts of electricity. The turbines are located on the Buffalo Ridge in southwestern Minnesota. Through the program, customers may choose to buy additional wind energy in 100-kWh blocks for a nominal monthly fee.

Western Area Power Administration (WAPA)
Todd-Wadena receives about 17 percent of its electricity from the hydro-electric facilities on the Missouri River, administered by the Western Area Power Administration.