The Hoosier Energy portfolio has grown and diversified to meet member needs and manage risk. Changes from 2020 to 2023 • Increased portfolio size (in MW) approximately 11 percent between 2020 and 2023. • Added 200 MW of solar to the portfolio in 2022 via the Riverstart Solar project. • Diversified…
Hoosier Energy 2023 Annual Report
Hoosier, GDS Associates offer expert assistance to determine eligibility, qualifying projects Bloomington, Ind. — In an effort to provide technical support to agricultural producers and rural small businesses applying to the USDA Rural Energy for America Program (REAP), Hoosier Energy, along with GDS Associates, is now assisting applicants from the state of Indiana in…
After woodpeckers damaged poles in Greene County’s Redbird State Recreation Area, a Hoosier Energy crew replaced the structures in March of 2024 to ensure the reliable flow of electricity.
Some projects are for the birds, and some are because of the birds. It was a case of the latter for Hoosier Energy’s recent Redbird Line Rebuild. With a right of way running through the Redbird State Recreation Area in Greene County, last spring a hole was spotted in one of the poles…
Change is inevitable over the course of four decades. But at South Central Indiana REMC, there have been two constants – Rex Franklin and Jerry Pheifer. There hasn’t been a board of directors without the pair since the early 1980s. Pheifer came on board in 1982 with Franklin following suit a year…
A new year means a new chance to help communities and nonprofit organizations within Hoosier Energy territory. The means to do that comes from Hoosier Energy’s aptly titled Community Impact Fund. Or at least that’s the name it’s gone by for the past two years, previously known as the Corporate Contributions Account. “Each…
Hoosier Energy’s Michelle Lynch attended her first in-person PLMA (Peak Load Management Alliance) Conference just two years ago in Baltimore. It was the first post-COVID event for the member-led nonprofit organization. A subset of PLMA is another member of the alphabet soup family, ULME (Utility Load Management Exchange). While PLMA is made up of…
Indiana is one of the top states in the country for grain bin entrapments and fatalities. And while those numbers are usually in the single digits for a calendar year, one is still too many. To that end, Henry County REMC focused a portion of a farm safety training session held in conjunction…
Logan Wilson and Christopher Hollen knew what they wanted. It took just one click and one visit to figure out how to get it. The duo were sold on The North American Lineman Training Center in McEwen, Tennessee, which delivered everything they expected and more. The more includes Wilson and Hollen being…
