Community Profile


"East Central Energy provides reliable, low-cost electric energy, business financing, energy audits, and energy conservation grants to help local businesses grow."

Stan Gustafson, Economic Development Director,
City of Cambridge


Electricity & Natural Gas

Competitively Priced Electricity and Natural Gas

East Central Energy and CenterPoint Energy Minnegasco provide reliable, competitively priced electricity and natural gas to hundreds of business users in Isanti County. 

 

East Central Energy

East Central Energy is a member-owned electric cooperative that serves nearly 57,000 homes, farms and businesses in east central Minnesota and northwestern Wisconsin. ECE provides electricity, Internet and long distance services, as well as community and business development and environmental services.


Extensive Business Services

East Central Energy offers extensive business services, including:

  • Free walk-through audits of commercial and industrial facilities
  • $250,000 in below-market financing for land, buildings, electrical machinery and equipment
  • $1.5 million in financing through the Minnesota Community Capital Fund for land, buildings, electrical machinery and equipment
  • Bi-monthly e-newsletter on ways to conserve energy, take advantage of technology advancements and expand business
  • Energy efficiency rebates for lighting, motors, variable frequency drives, high efficiency electrical machinery and equipment
  • Significantly reduced rates for business customers that install standby generators
  • High speed wireless internet service from Wild Blue


CenterPoint Energy/Minnegasco

CenterPoint Energy is the largest natural gas distribution company in Minnesota. Started in Minneapolis 130 years ago, it now serves more than 700,000 residential and business customers in 240 Minnesota communities.


Commercial/Industrial Rebates

The company makes businesses more efficient by providing training, equipment and custom consulting services. It also offers commercial/industrial rebates for:

  • Installing a new high-efficiency heating system
  • Retrofitting an existing heating system to reduce energy costs
  • Tuning up a boiler to enhance performance, safely and efficiency
  • Installing or upgrading new high-efficiency natural gas equipment
  • Customizing the most energy-efficient processes and equipment for individual operations