Automotive Communities Program - Communities working together

Hoosier Energy

Hoosier Energy, a Touchstone Energy cooperative, is a generation and transmission cooperative providing wholesale electric power and services to 17 member electric distribution cooperatives in 48 central and southern Indiana counties and one cooperative in southeastern Illinois. With headquarters in Bloomington, Ind., Hoosier Energy operates two coal-fired electric power production facilities - the 1,070-megawatt Merom Generating Station and the 250-megawatt Ratts Generating Station, as well as, a 174-megawatt peaking plant at Worthington and a 258-megawatt natural gas-fired generating facility in Lawrence County. A 2-megawatt renewable energy landfill methane gas generation facility operates at the Clark-Floyd Landfill in Clark County.

High-voltage electric power is delivered over a system of 1,450 miles of transmission lines and more than 300 distribution substations and delivery points. Interconnections link Hoosier Energy with other major utilities in Indiana and neighboring states.

The Hoosier Energy Power Network consists of the 18 member cooperatives and Hoosier Energy. Collectively, we provide electricity and related services to nearly 800,000 residents, businesses, industries and farms in a 15,000-square-mile service territory in the southern half of Indiana, and 11 southeastern Illinois counties.

To learn more about Hoosier Energy, please visit www.HoosierSites.com.