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Cass County Electric details reliability tech, demand‑response and renewables plans, including Flickertail wind and storage pilots
Summary
A Cass County Electric representative summarized the cooperative's grid‑management tools, demand‑response programs, community solar and storage pilots, and said a planned Flickertail wind project will boost the region's carbon‑free generation share when it comes online in the late 2020s.
A representative from Cass County Electric Cooperative briefed Fargo’s Sustainability and Resiliency Committee on the cooperative’s reliability systems, demand‑response programs, renewable projects and early storage experiments.
The presenter (Chad), introduced himself as a Cass County Electric representative and described technology and program highlights: a SCADA system and automated outage restoration (FLSR), advanced metering infrastructure, an outage‑management/dispatch system and drone/thermal inspections to reduce outages. He said the cooperative served about 59,000 members in 2024 and sold just over 1.3 billion kilowatt‑hours that year.
On generation, the presenter summarized Minnkota Power Cooperative’s current mix (his description: roughly 57% coal, 34% wind, 7%…
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