Melanie Defore says she never thought of herself as a fixture. But when 15,104 days go by between starting a job and finishing it, the description just seems to fit. āSheās seen a lot of history and been a really important part of that history,ā Hoosier Energy President and CEO Donna Walker said…
Ryan Wilson and Morgan Sutton grew up across the pasture from each other in Osgood, Indiana. They were more like brothers than cousins ā playing together, going to school together and most everything else together. What they didnāt expect was to choose a career together. But both graduated from the North American…
For Erica Steinfeldt, Super Bowl Sunday is hardly the only day of the year that a sporting event takes center stage. As a mother of three, the Hoosier Energy Forecasting Analyst has plenty of experience attending football, basketball and baseball games as well as dance and show choir competitions. However, Steinfeldt had her…
The 2022 Youth Power and Hope Awards winners were announced at the Indiana Electric Cooperatives annual Recognition Banquet on Dec. 5, 2022, in Indianapolis, and it was a clean sweep for Hoosier Energy member cooperatives. The awards program, coordinated by the staff of Indiana Connection magazine, has honored a select group of middle school…
Winter Storm Elliott packed a punch in December, but Hoosier Energyās 18 member cooperatives stood strong and experienced minimal disruptions. The system absorbed a record-setting blow as temperatures dropped nearly 50 degrees in a span of 12 hours on Dec. 22 with two-to-three inches of snow across the service territory. Overall, the average…
Decatur County REMC recently hosted a field trip from a dozen Greensburg High School seniors. The students were treated to a variety of presentations designed to teach them about the cooperative and the utility industry. The day started out with Decatur County REMC’s Pat Nobbe talking about distribution, Hoosier Energy’s Tommy Roberts speaking…
If things went according to plan, Matt Mabrey would have retired on October 1, 2022. But as Mabrey has found out in life, and at Hoosier Energy for the past 21-plus years, things rarely go according to plan. So it wasnāt until January 6, 2023, that he officially retired, sort of. The former Vice…
Wyatt Binkley is no stranger to the International Linemanās Rodeo, held annually in Overland Park, Kansas, since 1984. Back in 2015, he was on hand to see his father, Jim Binkley, compete. Since then, Wyatt has been attending regularly with Jim Binkley, a superintendent for Scottsburg Municipal, serving on the International Lineman Hall of…
Where thereās smoke, thereās fire. What no one expected around 5 p.m. on October 12 was that the Hayden Substation in Jackson County was on fire. A nearby farmer in his field saw the smoke and investigated, indeed finding a most unexpected fire. āOccasionally a birdās nest might catch on fire or…
There are projects, and then there is the Bloomfield River Washout Project. Hoosier Energy recently wrapped up Phase I of one of the most daunting projects in recent memory. Others may cost more or take longer, but few match the complications involved in solving the kind of problem only Mother Nature can create. …
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