Spotlight Stories

The best endorsement any event can get is when people want to return time after time.   That was certainly the case for Henry County REMC’s 2024 Summer Cooperative Camp. In just its third year of existence, there were five returning campers among the 19 attendees with more past participants represented on staff at Henry…

Hoosier Energy continues to be an industry leader on many fronts, including communication with members. The most recent example came when NRECA’s Charu Gupta asked Member Relations Specialist Justin Thompson to be part of a nationwide presentation on the use of Salesforce.   Hoosier Energy joined EnergyUnited of North Carolina, Middle Tennessee EMC and Cowetta-Fayette…

In the past decade, South Central Indiana REMC has made its Energy Explorers Camp a fixture on the calendar for a mid-June Friday.   In 2023, the camp came on the heels of some unwanted history as the worst storm – a derecho, in fact – to ever hit SCI territory came through the night…

Interns are like a box of chocolates – you never know what you’re going to get.   Never was that truer than when Hoosier Energy System Planning Manager Carl Field agreed to take on a rare high school intern from Bloomington North last August.   “They reached out and had a senior interested in engineering,…

Capital credits are one of the unique aspects of cooperative membership.   Explaining them can be as big of a mystery as the Bermuda Triangle with members either getting lost in the fog or just emerging with a treasured check in hand.   The Utilities District of Western Indiana (UDWI) recently opted to clear the…

  Tuesday saw the first Community Impact Week Event in Owen County, as a handful of Hoosier Energy employees helped pack approximately four pallets (160 boxes) of food, which were loaded along with other items on Wednesday. Volunteers also helped sort food in bins, broke down cardboard boxes for recycling and filled bags with applesauce…

Nobody gets a smooth ride.   No one knows that better than electric cooperatives.   So as Hoosier Energy marked its 75th anniversary at the 2024 Annual Meeting in French Lick, it was only fitting that the theme was Cooperative Resilience.   With all 18 member cooperatives in attendance, this meeting wasn’t merely a look…

A video greeted arrivals at the 2024 Hoosier Energy Annual Meeting with pictures from the past and a 75th anniversary logo in the lower right corner.   One might have expected that would mean the annual event at the French Lick Resort would spend time looking back to see how far Hoosier Energy had come.…

Some projects are for the birds, and some are because of the birds.   It was a case of the latter for Hoosier Energy’s recent Redbird Line Rebuild.   With a right of way running through the Redbird State Recreation Area in Greene County, last spring a hole was spotted in one of the poles…

Change is inevitable over the course of four decades.   But at South Central Indiana REMC, there have been two constants – Rex Franklin and Jerry Pheifer.   There hasn’t been a board of directors without the pair since the early 1980s.   Pheifer came on board in 1982 with Franklin following suit a year…