MREC Fall Board Meeting

The MREC Fall Board Meeting will take place on September 5-6, 2024 at the St. James Hotel, 406 Main ST Red Wing, MN 55066. All MREC members are welcome to attend to provide suggestions on conference and stray voltage course planning.

Stray Voltage Investigation

The series of Stray Voltage Investigator’s courses provides different layers of information about stray voltage from basic concepts and definitions to hands on exercises, measurements, and calculations to conduct a stray voltage investigation. Our excellent instructors for this year are Michael Haas and Brian Costello from Alliant Energy, Paul Ortmann from Idaho Power Company, Anthony Cook from AC Electrical Testing, and Doug Reinemann from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Save the date for the Stray Voltage Courses:

Advanced Stray Voltage

• When: October 23-24, 2024
• Where: Memorial Union, 800 Langdon Street, Madison, WI 53706
• Agenda
• Register HERE

Past Conferences and Presentations

• The 2024 Annual MREC Conference and Pre-Conference was held from February 20 – 22, 2024 at The Radisson Hotel in La Crosse, Wisconsin and it was a success! Visit our Archives to download the presentations and take a look at the Agenda.

Archives of the brochures and presentations from previous annual MREC conferences can be found here.

Credit for Professional Training

• If you participated in an educational opportunity hosted by the Midwest Rural Energy Council and would like information on how to document instructional hours for professional training credit, click here.  You can get documentation for participation in the MREC Annual Conference or the Stray Voltage Investigator’s Training held in May in Wisconsin.