Spotlight Stories

June doesn’t only mark the start of summer, but the start of a new chapter for many high school graduates with college on the horizon.   A total of 86 students from 14 of Hoosier Energy’s member cooperatives earned scholarships this year, including three winners of the Indiana Electric Cooperatives Manager’s Association Scholarship.   Those…

Hoosier Energy recently announced the addition of two Member Relations Specialists to the Energy Management Solutions department. One of those was an internal hire in Kyle Coulson, while the other was an external hire in Justin Thompson, who came to Hoosier Energy from Indiana Municipal Power Agency (IMPA). Prior to that, he worked as a…

Late May saw Hoosier Energy hold Employee Appreciation Meetings, which replaced the annual employee meetings.   Two sessions were held at the Spencer Operations Center and one at Hoosier Energy Headquarters. There was also an Outage Appreciation Lunch at Merom Generating Station.   During the meetings at Spencer and HQ, Hoosier Energy CEO Donna Walker…

Late May saw Hoosier Energy hold Employee Appreciation Meetings, which replaced the annual employee meetings.   Two sessions were held at the Spencer Operations Center and one at Hoosier Energy Headquarters. There was also an Outage Appreciation Lunch at Merom Generating Station.   During the meetings at Spencer and HQ, Hoosier Energy CEO Donna Walker…

The seed was planted two and a half years ago.   This May, what was planted finally got to bloom.   Clark County REMC and Charlestown High School have combined to give students not only a classroom view of the generation and transmission of electricity but practical, hands-on experience.   The 2021-22 school year was…

  Clark County REMC was looking for a live line tabletop demo. The Utilities District of Western Indiana (UDWI) had an extra one.   In the cooperative spirit, the latter donated to the former, putting both co-ops in a position to better educate their member-consumers.   “We were happy to help out,” UDWI CEO Doug…

Results and comments from the 2021 Safety & Culture Survey were recently released to Hoosier Energy employees. The process to reach this point took longer than expected but remains ongoing, as this was the first company-wide survey, building off a similar previous survey at Merom. Approximately 70% of Hoosier employees participated in the survey and…

No stop signs, no traffic lights. Not even a roundabout.   That was how file management used to feel for Bernie Voges, Senior Protection Engineer for Hoosier Energy.   But thanks to Adept Software, Hoosier finally found a way to police those files and provide some direction.   In April, Voges was one of three…

Hanging by a thread usually has a negative connotation.   But in the world of electric and telecommunications co-ops, it has begun to take on an entirely different meaning.   Broadband fiber networks have introduced a new world of possibilities, a subject which was explored at the 2022 Hoosier Energy Annual Meeting on April 7…

“There’s a guy here in the corporate office looking to hire an engineer, do you want to talk to him?”   Bill Lonnberg answered the question in the affirmative and never looked back.   Hired on in November of 1986, Lonnberg wrapped up a career of more than 35 years at Hoosier Energy last month.…