March 21, 2025
SwiftCurrent Connect Reaches Major Milestone with 4,000th Fiber Broadband Connection
Ellsworth, WI –SwiftCurrent Connect, a leader in delivering high-speed fiber broadband, proudly announces the completion of its 4,000th fiber broadband connection, marking a significant milestone in its mission to enhance connectivity for communities across Wisconsin. Read more...
March 5, 2025
Pierce Pepin Cooeprative Services Awards First-Quarter Grants
Ellsworth, WI –Pierce Pepin Cooperative Services (PPCS) recently awarded first-quarter grants to local non-profits. The Pierce Pepin Cares board approved $2,000 through the Federated Youth Foundation (FYF). FYF is funded through abandoned capital credits. Read more...
February 5, 2025
Live Better Community Service Award Presented to Claire John
Ellsworth, WI –Pierce Pepin Cooperative Services is pleased to announce Claire John has been named the Live Better Community Service Award winner for the first quarter of 2025. John received the award and a $100 MasterCard® gift card on February 4 for her generous work as a volunteer for Lost Creek Ranch, a non-profit horse rescue in Beldenville, Wisconsin. Read more...
November 11, 2024
Pierce Pepin Cooperative Services Members Boost Local Food Shelves and Community Programs
Ellsworth, WI –Pierce Pepin Cooperative Services (PPCS) members have once again demonstrated their commitment to the community by supporting local food shelves and other vital programs through the Pierce Pepin Cares Foundation. At their October meeting, the Pierce Pepin Cares board awarded $17,600 in grants to eight food pantries, each receiving $2,200. Read more...
September 27, 2024
Pierce Pepin Cooperative Services Provides Hurricane Helene Relief
Ellsworth, WI –Pierce Pepin Cares, the charitable foundation of Pierce Pepin Cooperative Services, is providing financial support to victims of Hurricane Helene. The Pierce Pepin Cares board of directors met on October 5 and approved sending $2,500 to support Hurricane Helene relief efforts. The $2,500 comes from the cooperative’s Federated Youth Foundation (FYF), funded through abandoned capital credits. Read more...
September 27, 2024
PPCS celebrates Clean Energy Week with visit from Governor Evers
Ellsworth, WI –As part of National Clean Energy Week, Wisconsin Governor Tony Evers stopped in Hager City on Monday, September 23, to visit Pierce Pepin Cooperative Services' (PPCS) new solar array, Trenton Solar at Truttmann Field. The 2-megawatt array can produce enough electricity to power 525 homes. Using 12 acres of land, the array includes more than 4,000 bifacial panels, each 550 watts, that operate with an axis tracking system to follow the sun and maximize generation. Read more...
September 19, 2024
Trenton Solar at Truttmann Field Solar Array Dedicated in Ribbon-Cutting Ceremony
Ellsworth, WI –Pierce Pepin Cooperative Services (PPCS) celebrated a significant milestone in renewable energy on Thursday, September 19, with the dedication of the Trenton Solar at Truttmann Field solar array. The ribbon-cutting ceremony marked the official launch of this innovative project, developed in partnership with the National Association of State Energy Officials, the Office of Energy Innovation through the Wisconsin Public Service Commission (PSC), and WEST CAP. Read more...
August 30, 2024
PPCS Wins Statewide Magazine Award
Madison, WI –Pierce Pepin Cooperative Services recently won an award of excellence for presentation of local news in the Wisconsin Energy Cooperative News, the voice of the state’s rural electric cooperatives. Read more...
August 15, 2024
PPCS Recognized as Tree Line USA Utility for 20th Consecutive Year
Ellsworth, WI –Pierce Pepin Cooperative Services (PPCS) is proud to announce that the Arbor Day Foundation has recognized it as a Tree Line USA Utility for the 20th consecutive year. This prestigious designation highlights PPCS’s unwavering commitment to proper forest management in its service area. Read more...
July 26, 2024
Local Non-Profits Receive Pierce Pepin Cares Grants
Ellsworth, WI –Three local non-profits received third-quarter grants from Pierce Pepin Cares, the charitable foundation of Pierce Pepin Cooperative Services (PPCS). Read more...
July 26, 2024
Local Non-Profits Receive Pierce Pepin Cares Grants
Ellsworth, WI –Three local non-profits received third-quarter grants from Pierce Pepin Cares, the charitable foundation of Pierce Pepin Cooperative Services (PPCS). Read more...
July 1, 2024
Pierce Pepin Cooperative services Welcomes New Data Center
Ellsworth, WI –Pierce Pepin Cooperative Services (PPCS) welcomed its newest commercial/industrial member, The Metered, LLC, with a ribbon-cutting ceremony on June 24. Read more...
May 17, 2024
Pierce Pepin Cares Awards Grants to Local Non-Profits
Ellsworth, WI –Second quarter grants were recently awarded by Pierce Pepin Cares, the charitable foundation of Pierce Pepin Cooperative Services (PPCS), to six local non-profits. The Pierce Pepin Cares board approved a total of $3,000 in grants, split evenly, to the Durand Fire Relief Association, Healing Play, Inc., The Luke 3:11 Project, Pierce County Historical Association, the Prescott Fire Department, and the River Bluff Humane Society. Read more...
May 1, 2024
PPCS Observerves Earth/Arbor Days with Acts of Service and Stewarship
Ellsworth, WI –Pierce Pepin Cooperative Services (PPCS), a steadfast advocate for community well-being, celebrated Earth and Arbor Days by engaging in meaningful acts of service. As part of its commitment to community, the cooperative is dedicated to environmental stewardship and making a positive impact on local ecosystems. Read more ...
April 19, 2024
Industry Veteran Joins Pierce Pepin Cooperatives Services as CFO
Ellsworth, WI –Pierce Pepin Cooperative Services (PPCS) announces Becky Bradburn as its next Vice President of Finance and Chief Financial Officer. Bradburn is an industry veteran with a wealth of knowledge and experience working in the electric cooperative industry. Bradburn joined PPCS after recently working at Bandera Electric Cooperative just outside San Antonio, Texas, where she held a similar role. Before Bandera, Bradburn was General Manager at Franklin Rural Electric Cooperative from 2016 to 2020 in Hampton, Iowa, and Executive Vice President and General Manager at Prairie Energy Cooperative in Clarion, Iowa, from 2014 to 2017. Read more ...
February 6, 2024
Pierce Pepin Cares Awards Grants to Local Non-Profits
Ellsworth, WI –First quarter grants were recently awarded by Pierce Pepin Cares, the charitable foundation of Pierce Pepin Cooperative Services (PPCS), to four local non-profits. The Pierce Pepin Cares board approved a total of $3,800 in grants to the Ellsworth High School, Basics for Local Kids, the Assistance and Resource Center (ARC), and the Salvation Army. Pierce Pepin Cares is funded by PPCS members who generously round up their monthly energy bills to the nearest dollar through Operation Round Up®, as well as direct donations. Read more ...
January 12, 2024
Care for Community: Pierce Pepin Cooperative Services Lobbies for State Support of Reading Program
Madison, WI –On January 10, Pierce Pepin Cooperative Services (PPCS) Communications Coordinator Liz Gunderson traveled to Madison to testify before the Assembly Committee on Children and Families in support of Dolly Parton's Imagination Library program. Assembly Bill 741 requires the Department of Children and Families to establish a grant program to reimburse nonprofit organizations for 50% of the cost of providing books (up to $10,000 total) to young children in partnership with "a national reading program." Read more ...
December 29, 2023
SwiftCurrent Connect Celebrates 3000th Customer
Ellsworth, WI –SwiftCurrent Connect, the broadband subsidiary of Pierce Pepin Cooperative Services
(PPCS), connected its 3,000th broadband customer on December 28, 2023. SwiftCurrent Connect provides western Wisconsin residents with high-speed, reliable fiber-based internet service. Read more ...
December 15, 2023
Wilsons receive the Live Better Community Service Award
Ellsworth, WI –Mike and Deb Wilson have been named the Live Better Community Service Award recipients for the fourth quarter of 2023. Pierce Pepin Cooperative Services presented the award to the Wilsons on December 13. They received the award and a $100 MasterCard® gift card for their generous work with the Funsters of Ellsworth. Read more ...
December 12, 2023
Pierce Pepin Cooperative Services spreads holiday cheer by supporting gift box program
Ellsworth, WI –For the fourteenth year in a row, Pierce Pepin Cooperative Services (PPCS) employees have embraced the spirit of giving during the holiday season by adopting a family through the Ellsworth Gift Box Program. Read more ...
November 10, 2023
Pierce Pepin Cooperative Services members help stock food shelves and more
Ellsworth, WI –Pierce Pepin Cooperative Services (PPCS) members helped stock Pierce and Pepin County food shelves through the co-op’s charitable foundation, Pierce Pepin Cares. At their October meeting, the Pierce Pepin Cares board awarded $17,600 in grants to eight food pantries; each received $2,200—Pierce County Food Pantry, Elmwood Food Pantry, Plum City Food Pantry, Prescott Area Food Shelf, River Falls Food Pantry, Spring Valley Community Food Pantry, Pepin County Food Pantry, and Pepin-Immanuel Evangelical Lutheran-Food Pantry. Read more ...
November 10, 2023
Pierce Pepin Cooperative Services receives N.F. Leifer Memorial Journalism Award
Ellsworth, WI –An independent judge has selected Pierce Pepin Cooperative Services (PPCS) as the recipient of the 2023 N.F. Leifer Memorial Journalism Award, bestowed upon the co-op adjudged to have had the strongest overall local pages in the Wisconsin Energy Cooperative News over the previous 12 months. Liz Gunderson, PPCS communications coordinator, is the editor of the co-op's local pages. Read more ...
October 16, 2023
Pierce Pepin Cooperative Services focuses on acts of service during National Co-op Month
Ellsworth, WI –Pierce Pepin Cooperative Services (PPCS) has been celebrating National Co-op Month this October with acts of service. Concern for community is one of the seven core cooperative principles, and PPCS staff felt there was no better way to demonstrate that principle than through acts of service for the community. Read more ...
September 15, 2023
PPCS celebrates all things electric with Powered by Electricity free community event
Ellsworth, WI –Pierce Pepin Cooperative Services (PPCS), is teaming up with St.Croix Electric Co-Op, the Office of Sustainability at the University of Wisconsin-River Falls, and nonprofit Hope for Creation to host the third annual Powered by Electricity event on Saturday, Sept. 23, for Western Wisconsin residents. Read more ...