It had been three decades since Trina Pardue had been in school. But to her surprise, going back to school was an enjoyable experience. So enjoyable that what was supposed to be a short visit to pick up a Special Events certificate turned into almost two years and an Associate’s Degree in Hospitality Administration…
Like many high school graduates, Brady Woeste wasn’t sure what he wanted to do for a career. He had his own stump-grinding and lawn care business, while he’d also done farming – mostly grain and some beef cattle – with his uncle. However, the 2024 Union County High School graduate finally decided he’d…
Last month, Harrison REMC’s Andrew Korte found himself in the right place at the right time. Investigating a complaint about radio noise from a ham operator in a neighborhood some 15-plus miles away from headquarters, Korte got a surprise that had nothing to do with poles or lines. A colleague in the accompanying…
Outages are nothing new at a place like Holland Energy Plant. But the ongoing outage, due to be completed next month, is a different sort of animal. With three major projects, the 2025 outage at the natural gas facility co-owned by Hoosier Energy and Wabash Valley Power Alliance is easily the two-decade-old plant’s…
Nearly every day, the Hoosier Energy economic development team is answering questions. But questions from member cooperatives, member consumers or other local government and economic leaders weren’t enough for Economic Development Manager Jeff Pipkin. Over the past three years, Pipkin took classes with the Midwest Community Development Institute and recently answered a bunch…
Necessity is the mother of invention, but the birth of those inventions often still take time. That was the case over the past decade, as Hoosier Energy developed a method to test the Horstmann Faulted-Circuit Indicators it was implementing on transmission lines. It started with Lance Simpson, made a detour through a summer…
When Owen Valley High School’s Melissa Gillenwater reached out to South Central Indiana REMC about coming to her Jobs for America’s Graduates (JAG) class, the big question was how to fill 50 minutes and how to keep it interesting. However, SCI Vice President of Human Resources Marilou Idland put together a crew of presenters…
The Indiana Electric Cooperatives headquarters in Carmel were the site for the Hoosier Energy Spring 2025 Marketing and Member Services (MMSC) Meeting on February 24. With 38 people representing 14 of Hoosier Energy’s 17 member cooperatives on hand, it was a chance to learn about and from each other. That started from the…
Bob Barnes knows how to adjust to changing tides. His dad was a career Navy-man, and Barnes himself spent time in the Navy, honing expertise on gas turbines. Now he goes with the flow as Hoosier Energy’s Combined Cycle Generation Operation Manager. Barnes recently spoke with GridLines about his life and his…
Part of leadership is evolving and maturing over time. That’s the case for the Hoosier Energy Executive Leadership Development (HEELD) program, which displayed its latest evolution in 2024 as an 11-person class became the sixth to graduate, bringing the total number over the past 14 years to 70. Those who completed the 2024…
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