During the summer when school is out, there are plenty of educational opportunities for our young people. Dubois REC was proud to sponsor local students to attend the annual Camp Kilowatt! Students entering seventh grade this fall were eligible to attend and participate in the four-day program held at Camp Tecumseh in Brookston, Indiana. The… Continue reading.

Autopay With autopay, you just enroll by filling out a simple form at duboisrec.com. By using autopay, money is withdrawn directly from your bank account to pay your electric bill each month. The automatic draft is processed on the 20th of each month. If this date falls on a holiday or weekend, the draft will… Continue reading.

When Darian Lafferty graduated from Bloomington High School North in May, she started her summer internship at Hoosier Energy. However, it would be the second time she interned for the Bloomington-based generation and transmission cooperative. Lafferty served as a high school intern — the first at Hoosier in recent memory — from September to May… Continue reading.

Have you ever watched a video or TV show where a person is cooking a meal, then suddenly, they snap their fingers, and the meal is plated and ready to eat? That’s called a jump cut. While we wish we could “jump cut” from a power outage to power restoration, it can often take a… Continue reading.

Pursuant to the Indiana Rural Electric Membership Cooperative Act, legal notice is hereby given by Dubois Rural Electric Cooperative, Inc., that said Cooperative is holding funds for certain past or current consumers of electrical energy from the Cooperative representing capital credits distributions previously authorized by the Cooperative Board of Directors and held for a period… Continue reading.

The FREE SmartHub app is available to Dubois REC members. The app makes it simple to view your bill and access your account, make secure payments, check your electric use, notify us of an outage and so much more!

Congratulations! We are pleased to announce that Kora Gehlhausen from Saint Anthony won the kindergarten division of the 2025 Cooperative Calendar of Student Art Contest. She received $200 for her submission and will have her artwork featured on the cover of the calendar. In addition, Easton Cole, a third grader from Schnellville, earned an honorable… Continue reading.

Hoosier Energy held its second annual Community Impact Week this spring, which was bigger and better than the first. Hoosier Energy employees’ participation increased by 11 percent, and they also saw increased opportunities to participate. The week kicked off with Monroe County Community Kitchen’s Backpack Buddies, which distributes backpacks with food items for distribution to… Continue reading.

Consumers with water, gas and electricity connections have long been targets for utility scams. But in today’s digital world, every swipe and click increases the risk of potential scams. Scammers are more sophisticated than ever before, and they understand our increasing reliance on technology. With their sharpened digital knives, scammers have adapted their tactics to… Continue reading.

Dubois Rural Electric Cooperative, Inc. is the recipient of Federal financial assistance from the Rural Utilities Service, an agency of the U. S. Department of Agriculture, and is subject to the provisions of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, as amended, Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, as amended, the… Continue reading.