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Mountrail-Williams Electric Cooperative


Mountrail-Williams Electric Cooperative

In the late 1930s and early 1940s, most rural people in North Dakota and the rest of the country lived without electricity. Investor-owned utilities (or IOUs) were convinced it was too expensive to build lines to farms and ranches, and therefore, they certainly couldn't make any money by serving rural areas. The IOUs declined to run power lines to the countryside, leaving rural folks in the dark.
As a result, all across the country, including North Dakota, rural people banded together and formed their own rural electric cooperatives (RECs). With the help of government loans through the Rural Electrification Administration (REA), electric cooperatives sprung up in areas like Mountrail and Williams counties to help light the countryside. ...

218 58th Street West
Williston North Dakota 58802
United States

Dale L. Haugen Williston
  701-577-3765
701-577-3777





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