Nearly every day, the Hoosier Energy economic development team is answering questions. But questions from member cooperatives, member consumers or other local government and economic leaders weren’t enough for Economic Development Manager Jeff Pipkin. Over the past three years, Pipkin took classes with the Midwest Community Development Institute and recently answered a bunch…
Necessity is the mother of invention, but the birth of those inventions often still take time. That was the case over the past decade, as Hoosier Energy developed a method to test the Horstmann Faulted-Circuit Indicators it was implementing on transmission lines. It started with Lance Simpson, made a detour through a summer…
When Owen Valley High School’s Melissa Gillenwater reached out to South Central Indiana REMC about coming to her Jobs for America’s Graduates (JAG) class, the big question was how to fill 50 minutes and how to keep it interesting. However, SCI Vice President of Human Resources Marilou Idland put together a crew of presenters…
The Indiana Electric Cooperatives headquarters in Carmel were the site for the Hoosier Energy Spring 2025 Marketing and Member Services (MMSC) Meeting on February 24. With 38 people representing 14 of Hoosier Energy’s 17 member cooperatives on hand, it was a chance to learn about and from each other. That started from the…
Bob Barnes knows how to adjust to changing tides. His dad was a career Navy-man, and Barnes himself spent time in the Navy, honing expertise on gas turbines. Now he goes with the flow as Hoosier Energy’s Combined Cycle Generation Operation Manager. Barnes recently spoke with GridLines about his life and his…
Part of leadership is evolving and maturing over time. That’s the case for the Hoosier Energy Executive Leadership Development (HEELD) program, which displayed its latest evolution in 2024 as an 11-person class became the sixth to graduate, bringing the total number over the past 14 years to 70. Those who completed the 2024…
Nobody in the village of Palmira, Guatemala, has waited longer to see the light than Juliana Lopez Aguilar. The 105-year-old woman shed tears of joy after Project Indiana lineworkers installed electricity at her home for the first time on February 5, 2025. And Aguilar wasn’t the only one. A total of 197 families…
Mentors make a difference. They certainly did for the first two 2025 recipients of the W. Eugene Roberts and Daniel L. Schuckman Memorial Scholarships from Hoosier Energy. The scholarship total is being expanded this year with Hoosier Energy anticipating awarding two scholarships each semester to attendees at the North American Lineman Training Center in…
Medical emergencies can happen anywhere. On January 15, it happened at the Hoosier Energy Power Delivery Operations Center (PDOC) in Spencer. A contractor was complaining of chest pain that ran from the sternum to between the shoulders. In less than five minutes, a trio of Hoosier Energy employees were on the scene…
This January, Decatur County REMC saw the fulfillment of nearly two years of preparation with the official launch of PowerStream Fiber. CEO Brett Abplanalp made the announcement on January 17 at the Decatur County REMC community room. “Just as we brought power to our rural communities 87 years ago, it’s only fitting that…
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