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…
Donnie Eslinger began work at Hoosier Energy on March 29, 1976.
Hoosier Energy has long been at the forefront of the energy industry. Donnie Eslinger looks back at his role in one standard of Hoosier innovation — digital fault recorders.
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…
A Reunião Anual de 2026 foi a primeira da Hoosier Energy em dois anos, após o evento do ano anterior ter sido cancelado devido a fortes tempestades e ameaças de tornados. Como acontece com quase tudo no setor de energia, muita coisa mudou em dois anos. Mas a missão da Hoosier Energy de fornecer energia confiável e acessível permanece a mesma…
Relatório Anual da Hoosier Energy para 2025
