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2023 Review from General Manager & CEO and Board Chairman Rick Barrett
We hope to see you at our Annual Meeting on Saturday, April 27, 2024, at Recreation Park in Tomah. Registration begins at 8 a.m., and the business meeting starts at 9 a.m.; please come early for coffee and donuts. Each member account will receive one welcome gift, and following the meeting, all members in attendance will receive a $10 Kwik Trip grocery card.
In 2023, Oakdale Electric returned almost $1.4 million in capital credits to our members. An aggressive retirement is planned again for this year with another $1.4 million. External auditors gave your cooperative another clean report regarding our financial systems and controls. Both the continued retirement of capital credits and a clean report are something that we are very proud of.
In December 2023, Oakdale, working with OneEnergy Renewables, finalized the construction of two solar gardens in our service territory. The combined output of these two systems is 4.5 megawatts (MW) and can provide energy to approximately 1,000 homes each year. We are very excited and proud of this accomplishment. In 2025 or early 2026, we are looking at constructing an additional 4.5 MW somewhere in our service territory. Read more...
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