The Hoosier Energy Apprenticeship Training & Safety (HEATS) program held its 2025 graduation ceremony on October 17 in French Lick. It was the largest attendance at a graduation since 2022, when three years’ worth of graduates were honored due to COVID-19 restrictions. The 2025 ceremony had 60 graduates and 363 attendees. That brings…
In early November, Hoosier Energy hosted the Connect to Save Kickoff Event for member cooperatives. The event introduced the Distributed Energy Resource Management System (DERMS) program, serving as both a training platform and a strategic alignment session. Connect to Save is a collaboration between the member consumer and the local electric cooperative to…
Hoosier Energy held its third annual Community Impact Week from October 6-10. Moved from the spring to the fall to coincide with IEC’s Community Service Day on October 10, Hoosier Energy employees once again came together to highlight the cooperative principle of Concern for Community. Participants received a T-shirt to wear during the activities.…
The first class has graduated, and the second class is already in progress. The Indiana Fiber Technician Training Program, a partnership between Hoosier Energy and Indiana Electric Cooperatives (IEC) with the Fiber Broadband Association (FBA), allows participants to earn the FBA OpTIC Path Certification. But the class is more than just fiber. It’s…
As cooperatives, Hoosier Energy and its member systems are committed to the seven cooperative principles, including Concern for Community. Electric cooperatives across the state of Indiana put that principle at the forefront for Community Day on October 10. More than 30 cooperatives took on approximately 50 local community projects, either on that day or…
Hoosier Energy’s quest to be a partner in conservation efforts by creating healthy pollinator habitats continues to evolve. Three years after becoming the first generation and transmission cooperative to receive a Certificate of Inclusion for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Nationwide Candidate Conservation Agreement with Assurances (CCAA) for the monarch butterfly, and one…
The fourth annual Indiana Electric Cooperative Lineman Rodeo was held at the Hendricks County Fairgrounds on August 21-22, 2025. A total of 34 teams and 125 participants representing 26 of the state’s electric cooperatives, including 13 Hoosier Energy member cooperatives, competed in the two-day event showcasing the skills of the state’s linemen. The…
The Centerton to Wilbur Project was still in the planning stages two years ago. Now the project is closing in on the finish line of nearly six miles of new overhead transmission line connecting the Hoosier Energy Wilbur substation to the Duke Energy Centerton substation in Morgan County. It hasn’t been a straight…
Not long ago, Shane Able was a truck driver who didn’t know what a cooperative was. In the past year, that’s all changed dramatically. Able graduated from the North American Lineman Training Center in McEwen, Tennessee, in August and is lining up a future he didn’t know existed a year ago. “I…
For the fourth straight year, Hoosier Energy member cooperatives have raised the bar for awarding local students with college scholarship money. In 2025, a total of 99 students received $101,000 in scholarships, surpassing last year’s 95 students and $95,000. If you add in Wayne-White Counties Electric Cooperative’s Jake Wiseman, who was awarded $2,500 via…
