NineStar Connect became the first cooperative in the United States to offer four utilities under one umbrella organization: electricity, fiber optic communications, water and sewer services. The Indiana cooperative recently received its certificate of territorial authority (CTA) from the Indiana Utility Regulatory Commission …Read More.
Indiana Cooperatives in the News
‘Wet utilities’ are key to rural economic development
Successful economic development relies on the presence of key infrastructure, such as transportation and fiber optic access. In rural counties – such as Hancock County – a missing piece of the infrastructure puzzle that’s been hampering economic development is the …Read More.
Rhea Named to National Youth Council
Camilette Rhea of Loogootee, Ind., will participate in the Youth Leadership Council (YLC) of the National Rural Electric Cooperative Association (NRECA). She was selected to represent the state from the 81 Indiana student delegates who participated in the June Electric …Read More.
Electric cooperative student art contest winners named
Indiana’s electric cooperatives and their statewide magazine, Electric Consumer, named the winners of their annual Cooperative Calendar of Student Art Contest. Attie Schuler, a student at Northfield High School in Wabash and a resident of North Manchester, was named artist …Read More.
Paulding Putnam Electric Cooperative funds an Honor Flight
Paulding Putnam Electric Co-op will present a check to Honor Flight Northeast Indiana on Saturday to fund an entire Honor Flight this year. Paulding Putnam employees have been raising funds for the flight since January. Community partners and individuals have been making donations, …Read More.
Carroll White REMC dedicates new facility
Carroll White REMC dedicated its new facility May 25 with a ribbon cutting. The facility, the first constructed in the Hoosier Heartland Industrial Park in Delphi, provides more space and a central location for the co-op to serve a nine …Read More.
Johnson County set for solar panels
By this winter, motorists driving on State Road 135 will see more than 4,000 solar panels near the road, collecting and distributing the renewable energy to southern Johnson County residents. As a push to have more renewable energy sources throughout …Read More.
Indiana cooperative members to benefit from wind pact
Hoosier Energy Rural Electric Cooperative, Inc. and Wabash Valley Power Association – Indiana’s generation and transmission electric cooperatives, have entered into a 20-year purchase power agreement that will add 100 megawatts (MW) of wind energy from an Indiana wind farm …Read More.
Kankakee Valley REMC celebrates Arbor Day
More than 900 Kankakee Valley-area fourth graders were given the opportunity to plant a tree this Arbor Day and learned about safety around power lines. For the sixth year, Kankakee Valley REMC donated Norway Spruce trees to students at ten …Read More.
NineStar offers solar panels for lease to customers
NineStar Connect is preparing to unroll a new program allowing customers to begin leasing solar panels. The solar farm represents the company’s first foray into alternative energy, a movement that’s gaining momentum as interest in clean energy climbs and costs …Read More.