Like Rotschafer, Meinke is committed to the cooperative. Boone Valley's service area includes the first home in Iowa to receive electricity under the 1936 Rural Electrification Act.

Soderberg, a former Iowa House member, became the group's executive vice president in 2015. Before that, he worked at Northwest Iowa Power Cooperative, called NIPCO, for 36 years.

THOMPSON | Heartland Power Cooperative of Thompson and St. Ansgar along with other rural electric cooperatives across the state have joined together to form Iowa Choice Renewables. This ...