United Power board retains incumbents, plans cooperative’s future

BRIGHTON — The incumbents on United Power’s board of directors are safe after election results were revealed at the energy cooperative’s annual meeting. The utility also discussed a planned change in its wholesale power supplier and celebrated reaching a milestone of 100,000 meters in July.

The cooperative introduced electronic voting for its members to vote on candidates for the board of directors. While the south district’s Keith Alquist and board chair and west district representative Ursula J. Morgan ran unopposed, Elizabeth Martin faced two challengers to represent the utility’s east district.

Martin received 2,728 votes, 196 more than her next closest challenger…