Many think of icicles as one of winter’s picturesque images. If your roof faces the south, you may see icicles forming during the day as the sun melts the snow. Yet icicles elsewhere on the roof, or with substantial ice buildup on the roof, can potentially lead to significant issues. Icicles can signal an ice… Continue reading.

Boone REMC prides itself on being a reliable provider of electricity. We know from the customer satisfaction survey and focus groups that we conducted in 2024 that reliability matters to you and that it is a key driver of your satisfaction with your service from Boone REMC. Maintaining our reputation for reliability is a top… Continue reading.

Copies of the Cooperative Calendar of Student Art and Farmers’ Almanacs for 2025 are available at our office, located at 1207 Indianapolis Ave., Lebanon. Stop by our lobby during regular business hours, Monday through Friday, 7:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., to pick them up (while supplies last). 

A BETTER WORLD Money. Food. Housing. Electricity. Broadband. A locally grown business model is steadily helping people connect with each of these basic needs — cooperatives. The United Nations declared 2025 the International Year of Cooperatives. The yearlong theme, “Cooperatives Build a Better World,” highlights the impact co-ops have on local communities. Co-ops are everywhere,… Continue reading.

One of the things that makes Boone REMC unique is that, annually, our customers — who are also member-owners of our cooperative — can vote in board of directors elections. Boone REMC is governed by a nine-member board, with each director representing a district of our service territory for three-year terms. In April 2025, directors… Continue reading.

Camp Kilowatt Participants enjoy traditional summer camp activities at Camp Tecumseh in Brookston, Indiana, such as canoeing and horseback riding, while learning about electrical safety, energy and careers at electric co-ops. ELIGIBILITY: Current sixth graders whose households receive electricity from Boone REMC DATE OF PROGRAM: June 4-7 APPLICATION DEADLINE: March 3 Youth Tour to Washington,… Continue reading.

When people hurriedly get ready for volatile winter weather, electricity generators are already prepared — and have been for months. As a generation and transmission cooperative, Wabash Valley Power Alliance (WVPA) works with the power plants it owns to ensure that they are ready to weather the worst each season. That means handling searing summer… Continue reading.

As a member-owned electric cooperative, Boone REMC is governed by a board of directors representing the membership districts that make up our service territory. Each year, we hold an election for three of our nine board districts. In April 2025, directors will be elected for districts 7, 8, and 9. Members living in these districts… Continue reading.

Copies of the Cooperative Calendar of Student Art and Farmers’ Almanacs for 2025 are available at our office, located at 1207 Indianapolis Ave., Lebanon. Stop by our lobby during regular business hours, Monday through Friday, 7:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., to pick them up (while supplies last).

When you signed up to receive electric service from Boone REMC, you became a member, not just a customer, of an electric utility. While investor-owned utilities return a portion of any profits back to their shareholders, electric co-ops operate on an at-cost basis. As such, they allocate and periodically retire capital credits, also called patronage,… Continue reading.

Enroll via SmartHub! LEARN MORE: bremc.com/paperless  We will conduct a drawing for 2 – $500 bill credits. All members who are paperless as of Jan. 15, 2025 will be entered in the drawing. Bill credit will be applied to February 2025 bills. Winners will be announced in the March 2025 Indiana Connection magazine.