Spotlight Stories

Nobody gets a smooth ride.   No one knows that better than electric cooperatives.   So as Hoosier Energy marked its 75th anniversary at the 2024 Annual Meeting in French Lick, it was only fitting that the theme was Cooperative Resilience.   With all 18 member cooperatives in attendance, this meeting wasn’t merely a look…

A video greeted arrivals at the 2024 Hoosier Energy Annual Meeting with pictures from the past and a 75th anniversary logo in the lower right corner.   One might have expected that would mean the annual event at the French Lick Resort would spend time looking back to see how far Hoosier Energy had come.…

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…

The cover photo of his Facebook page is the Coney Island Cyclone. And that alone might suggest that Tommy Roberts is capable of riding the ups and downs of the utility industry.   Hoosier Energy’s Engineering Services Manager is not only a roller coaster aficionado, but he’s helping guide the integration of technology into Hoosier’s…

The Union Volunteer Fire Department hasn’t been on a recorded run since 2018, and it’s been much longer since the department was fully functional and active.   That will all change on January 1, 2024, thanks in part to a donation from Hoosier Energy.   To receive calls and send notifications out to its firemen,…