Hoosier Energy serves more than 700,000 consumers through 17 member electric cooperatives across a 15,000-square-mile area in Indiana and Illinois.
Our member cooperatives help to distribute energy to more than 285,000 homes, farms and businesses across central and southern Indiana and southeastern Illinois.
We’ve developed an energy strategy focused on diversified generation facilities and a resilient transmission network. We’re also expanding our renewables program.
Our people are the lifeblood of our organization. We prioritize the health and well-being of our employees and value the contributions of every team member, from entry level up to the C-suite.
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Scott Bowers
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Justin Swarens
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…
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