Spotlight Stories

The Kays to Wheeler Creek Transmission Line Project kicked off with a trio of open houses by Hoosier Energy and Wayne-White Counties Electric Cooperative during the first week of March.   The proposed rebuild and upgrade of 28 miles of transmission line will take place in Wayne-White territory between the Fairfield South Substation and Wheeler…

On March 18, Hoosier Energy hosted its 2026 spring Marketing, Member Services and Communicators (MMSC) Meeting.   The meeting provided an opportunity for representatives of the member cooperatives to dive deeper and share experiences about a handful of key topics.   Early arrivals got the chance to discuss rebates related to Demand-Side Management (DSM).  …

The Indiana Economic Development Association (IEDA) has long been associated with Hoosier Energy, which was among the group of utilities, banks, law firms, accountants and other community pillars who helped start the organization.   In 2025, Economic Development Manager Jeremy Sowders served as chair of the IEDA board, helping guide the group through a year…

Artificial intelligence (AI) has become more than a buzzword. It’s now an inevitable part of any business.   In early February, a panel of Hoosier Energy employees helped demonstrate some ways that was the case during a Lunch & Learn at Headquarters and a Breakfast & Learn at PDOC.   Presentations came from Vice President…

There’s a first time for everything, and the first time for Hoosier Energy to deploy the Load Modifying Resource (LMR) Program came on January 24, 2026.   The LMR program started in June of 2023, motivated in part by the severe cold of Winter Storm Elliott in December of 2022. Running in tandem with the…

In the spring of 2025, Hoosier Energy began a billing assessment operation, guided by 1898 and Co.   The goal was to examine the Hoosier Energy billing process from start to finish.   “We sort of refer to it as the cash register of the company, but what it boils down to is we’ve got…

The idea took root while Orange County REMC Marketing and Sales Manager Montana Roberts was taking Indiana Electric Cooperatives’ RELITE program last year.   “I heard other participants talking about their student board, and the things they’d been doing,” she said. “I was really interested in learning more, so we were able to talk about…

Becoming a lineman is more than an individual career path for Cody Case and Briar Houser.   It’s about becoming part of a team.   That was the takeaway for the December 2025 graduates of the North American Lineman Training Center and the latest recipients of Hoosier Energy’s Daniel L. Schuckman and W. Eugene Roberts…

In the digital age, a generation and transmission cooperative such as Hoosier Energy has become an increasingly data-driven business.   But until recently, that data resided in a variety of forms and locales, making cohesiveness elusive.   Field crews had handwritten notebooks, PDFs created by engineers, self-made spreadsheets and documents saved to their personal computers…

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…