In 2022-2024, under the National Science Foundation’s Strengthening American Infrastructure (NSF SAI), ECIC is partnering with the Beneficial Electrification League to scope new partnerships between co-ops, universities, and extension programs.

In 2022-2024, ECIC will be partnering with Great River Energy to explore innovation in distributed energy resource deployment with support from the University of Minnesota Institute on the Environment.

In 2022, ECIC is partnering with Hoosier Energy to study how integrated planning across generation, transmission, and distribution can integrate distributed energy resources.

In 2020-2021, the University of Minnesota partnered with East River Electric Power Cooperative and five of East River’s distribution members under the Department of Energy’s Solar Energy Innovation Network.

In 2020-2021, the University of Minnesota partnered with Great River Energy, the Clean Energy Resource Teams, and the Great Plains Institute to support innovation in demand-side management programs with GRE and its 28 distribution members.

In 2018-2019, UC-Davis partnered with Central Electric Power Cooperative and its twenty distribution members to study the multi-level governance of Central and its members.