Union Volunteer Fire Department donation
Hoosier Energy’s pole donation helps the Union Volunteer Fire Department get one step closer to reopening its doors.
Tommy Roberts Q&A: Riding technology’s roller coaster
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…
Hoosier Energy helps out volunteer fire department
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,…
Cooperatives come together for Community Day 2023
Each year on the second Friday of October, Indiana’s electric cooperatives collectively participate in Community Day. This year, October 13 was no exception as cooperatives across the state met various needs within their service area. Some cooperatives held their projects on a different date, but all in all 15 of Hoosier Energy’s member cooperatives…
HEATS program celebrates 2023 graduating class
The Hoosier Energy Apprenticeship Training and Safety (HEATS) Program recently celebrated the 2023 graduating class with a ceremony in French Lick. After being welcomed by Hoosier Energy Manager of Safety and Training Brandon Gentry, IBEW Local 1393 Business Manager and Financial Secretary Bob Cox and Hoosier Energy Chief Technology Officer Bob Richhart, it was…
Megan Miller Q&A: New role, new experience
Sooner or later, life brings change for everyone. For Megan Miller, embracing change has been a lifestyle for the better part of two decades with no signs of letting up. From Minnesota to Florida to Indiana geographically, from healthcare to fitness expert to business management and beyond in studies, and a career that has…
Wayne-White scholarship honors former lineman Kinney
Gerry Kinney has never played much golf, but at least once a year for the past four years, he has found himself at Fairfield Public Golf Course for the Wayne-White Counties Electric Cooperative Electrical Distribution Systems Scholarship Fundraiser. That’s what happens when the scholarship, which goes to a Frontier Community College student, bears your…
South Central Indiana REMC helps liven up Peden Farm event
Some covered their ears, others jumped a little. Whatever the reaction to the pop of electricity, the young students attending the Children’s Farm Festival at Peden Farm paid rapt attention to the South Central Indiana REMC line crew doing a live line demonstration. The annual festival took place on September 28-29 in northern…
Aerial saw trimming takes flight for Hoosier Energy
Nine 25-inch carbide tip circular saw blades attached to multiple 20-foot aluminum poles and powered by a 50-horsepower snowmobile motor that can be turned on and off remotely – attached to the bottom of a helicopter? It sounds like the kind of crazy, homemade contraption that would make even Tim the Toolman jealous. …
Hoosier Energy’s Aerial Saw Trimming program
Over the past five years, the aerial saw has become one of Hoosier Energy’s most cost-efficient and time-efficient tools in providing affordable and reliable power to its members and their member-consumers.