The meeting was opened by Chairman Steve AmRhein and Jason Barnhorst kept the minutes of the meeting. All board members were present, with Suzanne Parmer and Brian Scheidler attending virtually. Also present were CEO Brett Abplanalp and employees Matt Raver, Sam Ruf and Crystal Greathouse. Dale Wernke moved to approve the agenda. Jeff Lawrence seconded… Continue reading.

Phase 1 (5 zones, all open) — Orland/West Otter/Salem/Helmer At-home installation (all zones open) Phase 2 (zones 3 of 4 open) — Nevada Mills/Lake James/Crooked Lake Registration open Make ready construction (complete) Mainline construction (complete) Mainline splicing (Zone 9 nevada west) Service wire construction At-home installation (zone 6 Nevada North, Zone 7 Nevada NE, Zone… 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.