Environmental Information

Arbor Day

Share your love or trees with friends, family and special interst groups. This is a great site to seek for educational programs and to share your Arbor Day Stories.

Maintaining electric lines along side beautiful old groves of maple, oak and ash is not an easy job. It is a very serious matter for every utility that uses overhead lines. One strong wind can turn a scenic front yard into an electrical disaster when trees and lines are not properly maintained.

Tree trimming is a necessary part of providing electric service to your home or business. Without proper trimming, lines are lost, amounting to additional operational expense and restoration of service charges when trees cause outages. Eventually these costs come out of every member's pocket through retail base electric rates.

The National Wild Turkey Federation has formed an electrifying partnership with South Central Indiana Rural Electric Membership Corporation of Martinsville, Ind., to become part of the NWTF's Energy for Wildlife conservation program.

Energy for Wildlife is a membership-based certification program for all energy companies with the primary goal of enhancing wildlife habitat on company managed, owned or influenced lands, including power line and gas rights-of-ways, plant sites, forestlands or other properties.

EnviroWatts is Indiana’s electric cooperatives’ name for renewable energy that is generated from preferred sources.

A generation and transmission cooperative - located in Bloomington, IN. The primary function of Hoosier Energy is to provide electricity, produced at one of two generating plants, for 16 central and southern Indiana REMCs. Over 80 percent of Hoosier Energy's generating capacity is equipped with pollution-control devices, making us already in compliance with federal clean air laws.