Spotlight Stories

As the 2024-25 school year begins, 95 college students from Hoosier Energy member cooperatives are reaping the benefits of scholarships awarded this past spring and summer.   That total surpasses last year’s previous high-water mark of 90 and includes a pair of statewide scholarship winners. Southern Indiana Power’s Cyrilla Sommer of Tell City received a…

Quantum computers, artificial intelligence, social media, cryptocurrency – all discussed during Hoosier Energy’s 2024 Strategic Issues Board Forum.   But amid the head-spinning, mind-bending discussion of the present and future of information-sharing, there was a presentation anchored in more familiar territory. This one might be best described by the old NBC moniker, “The More You…

Two years ago, Hoosier Energy became the first generation and transmission cooperative to receive a Certificate of Inclusion for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Nationwide Candidate Conservation Agree with Assurances (CCAA) for the monarch butterfly.   That commitment to integrated vegetation management and the practices encouraging habitat maintenance and development continues to reap benefits.…

“What we’ve got here is failure to communicate.”   The famous movie line from “Cool Hand Luke” could also serve as a warning for those unwilling to embrace concepts shared at the 2024 Hoosier Energy Strategic Issues Forum.   The annual two-day event at the French Lick Resort for member CEOs and Hoosier board members…

The learning never ends for Hoosier Energy linemen and apprentices, nine of which attended the 2024 Hot Stick School at Chippewa Valley Technical College in Eu Claire, Wisconsin, this summer.   Joined by Senior Safety and Training Specialist Dave Helton along with Training and Safety Specialist Shaun Hayse, the group of Bob Murphy, Tyler Huff,…

The best endorsement any event can get is when people want to return time after time.   That was certainly the case for Henry County REMC’s 2024 Summer Cooperative Camp. In just its third year of existence, there were five returning campers among the 19 attendees with more past participants represented on staff at Henry…

Hoosier Energy continues to be an industry leader on many fronts, including communication with members. The most recent example came when NRECA’s Charu Gupta asked Member Relations Specialist Justin Thompson to be part of a nationwide presentation on the use of Salesforce.   Hoosier Energy joined EnergyUnited of North Carolina, Middle Tennessee EMC and Cowetta-Fayette…

In the past decade, South Central Indiana REMC has made its Energy Explorers Camp a fixture on the calendar for a mid-June Friday.   In 2023, the camp came on the heels of some unwanted history as the worst storm – a derecho, in fact – to ever hit SCI territory came through the night…

Interns are like a box of chocolates – you never know what you’re going to get.   Never was that truer than when Hoosier Energy System Planning Manager Carl Field agreed to take on a rare high school intern from Bloomington North last August.   “They reached out and had a senior interested in engineering,…

Capital credits are one of the unique aspects of cooperative membership.   Explaining them can be as big of a mystery as the Bermuda Triangle with members either getting lost in the fog or just emerging with a treasured check in hand.   The Utilities District of Western Indiana (UDWI) recently opted to clear the…