Instead of my normal monthly article, for several months we will be featuring each of our seven districts. Each one is a unique and special place to call home. We’ve also asked each board member from those districts to tell us a little about where they live and why they love being there. We hope… Continue reading.
Office closed for Labor Day: Sept. 4 Operation Round Up application deadlines: Sept. 29, Dec. 29
By Cathy Racicot Every member of the Harrison REMC team brings their own set of skills and qualifications to the co-op. By working together, all office and field employees contribute to Harrison REMC’s mission to provide reliable, safe and affordable energy to all co-op members. Harrison REMC’s member services team are the behind-the-scenes frontline of… Continue reading.
As the temperature rises, so does the demand for electricity, and a recent report from the North American Electric Reliability Corporation titled the “2023 Summer Reliability Assessment” is sounding the alarm about possible blackouts this summer. The report states that approximately two-thirds of the country is at an elevated risk of potential for insufficient operating reserves…. Continue reading.
Harrison REMC is offering members another way to pay their bill. Checkout is a convenient, cash-based payment application that will allow members to pay their bill using a Checkout barcode and cash at retail locations across the country. How it works and some FAQs: • Members can obtain their barcode from the back of their bill… Continue reading.
Boone REMC’s Operation Round Up® board of trustees recently awarded the following grants: Operation Round Up is a voluntary program for which Boone REMC members allow their electric bills to be rounded up to the next whole dollar. Those extra cents are put into an independent, 501(c)(3) trust and disbursed through a grant process. An… Continue reading.
Since Boone REMC, Indiana’s first electric cooperative, was founded in 1936, electric cooperatives have succeeded because their consumer-owners stay politically engaged. Today, that engagement is more important than ever. Electric cooperatives continue to be well positioned to create a bright future for the communities they serve by engaging in political activity. Politics can be a touchy… Continue reading.
A Sense monitor is a device installed on a home’s electrical panel that detects and records energy use in real time. Boone REMC owns several Sense monitors and offers members three free months of use of the device. The monitor uses sensors that read the electrical current over 1 million times each second. Machine learning technology uses… Continue reading.
Parenting isn’t easy. Days are packed with activities and it’s hard to find time to talk to your kids about real issues. But the lessons kids learn now will stay with them for the rest of their lives. One important lesson they should learn from you is how to use energy. What should you tell… Continue reading.
Many people welcome summer days not with smiles, but with sneezes, sniffles and sensitivity to seasonal allergies that leave them sprinting indoors. Yet their home might not be the allergen safe haven they consider it to be. Some of those very allergens making people ill can easily come indoors — and may be residing alongside… Continue reading.
While many children of all ages were relieved to be out of school for the summer, there were several deserving students from Hoosier Energy member cooperatives who were looking ahead to the 2023-24 school year. That’s because a total of 14 cooperatives, 13 in the state of Indiana, awarded scholarships to 90 students this year,… Continue reading.
