For the second straight year, Hoosier Energy member cooperatives awarded over $100,000 in college scholarships to local students. A total of 94 students were selected as recipients of these scholarships, many of which were funded by Operation Round Up, which allows cooperative members to voluntarily round up their monthly electric bills to the next…
Since 2024, Hoosier Energy and its cooperatives have been participating in a member education and engagement campaign via streaming audio, streaming video, digital display and social media. The campaign specifically targets audiences under the age of 45, with research showing younger demographics are not as familiar with/positive about electric cooperatives. “The goal is to…
The United States of America recently celebrated its 250th birthday. People like Ron Taylor are a big part of the reason why. The retired Hoosier Energy employee and Vietnam Veteran participated in the 50th Indy Honor Flight to Washington, D.C., on May 30, 2026. “It was really well organized, well done and…
Months after Winter Storm Fern put Indiana in a deep freeze, Hoosier Energy and its member cooperatives are still warming to the lessons learned. On January 24, 2026, a Midcontinent Independent System Operator (MISO) Maximum Generation Emergency event occurred, a rare event for all involved. This included calling on Load Modifying Resources (LMRs) and…
It’s a bird, it’s a plane, it’s … flying linemen? If you were in the right place at the right time near a 12-mile stretch of transmission lines between Tell City North and Bandon Substation in early April, you might have caught a glimpse of linemen tethered underneath a helicopter, soaring through the air…
As a generation and transmission (G&T) cooperative, Hoosier Energy manages larger distributed generation interconnections for its member cooperatives. Termed the Small Generator Interconnection Process (SGIP), these interconnections are for generating facilities larger than 50 kilowatts but no more than 20 megawatts and interconnected at less than or equal to 34.5kV. The member cooperatives handle…
Meticulous. Problem-solver. Easy going. Knowledgeable. Sharp. Generous. These are all words used to describe Donnie Eslinger. Add them all up, and after 50 years at Hoosier Energy, there’s just one word to describe Eslinger – golden. The Dugger, Indiana, native is celebrating a pair of golden anniversaries in 2026. He started work…
While the new Merom Plant was still in the commissioning phase in the early 1980s, Donnie Eslinger and Darrell Goodson often found themselves with downtime between tasks. It’s dangerous to give smart guys free time, but this duo was interested in improving the company. With Eslinger inspired in part by his father’s career as…
The 2026 Hoosier Energy Annual Meeting convened on April 8 with the theme of Bold Moves, Cooperative Priorities. It might also have been subtitled: Data Centers and Affordability. That trend started right out of the gate with comments from Hoosier Energy President & CEO Donna Walker, who noted that while these are hot…
The 2026 Annual Meeting was the first for Hoosier Energy in two years after last year’s event was canceled due to severe storms and tornado threats. As with most anything in the energy industry, a lot has changed in two years. But Hoosier Energy’s mission of providing reliable and affordable energy has not, even…
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