A forty-seven-million-dollar loan from the US Department of Agriculture will fund major improvements for Southeastern Electric.
Manager Brad Schardin says they have been working on these plans for quite a while……

Schardin says they will build one hundred eighty miles of new power line, and improve almost another four hundred miles………

Schardin says they will use a half million dollars to extend their “smart grid” system…..

Southeastern, based in Marion, serves over seventeen thousand consumers from the Sioux Falls area, west and south to Parkston and Menno.