Wind power comes from several purchased power agreements.
Projects include agreements for wind capacity from:
- Story County, Iowa
- Rail Splitter Wind Farm in Illinois
- Meadow Lake V wind farm in Northwestern Indiana
Hoosier Energy Power Supply Portfolio
- A 20-year purchased power agreement was finalized in 2012
- Electricity produced by a 4-megawatt hydroelectric facility near Dayton, Illinois
- The plant produces about 18,000 megawatt-hours annually, enough to power about 1,500 homes
Solar Program
- Hoosier Energy’s solar program consists of 10 1-megawatt solar arrays placed along highly visible roadways across member service territories
- Collectively, the solar sites will provide approximately 20,000,000 kilowatt-hours (kWh) of energy annually for the 300,000 consumers served by Hoosier Energy’s 18-member distribution cooperatives
Key Goal
- Learn how this variable energy resource integrates onto the grid and how solar might offset the need for other more costly energy resources during periods of high demand
- Once collected, this information will help member distribution systems give advice to member consumers on the operational issues, costs, and benefits of solar as a renewable energy resource
What to know how much energy is being produced at the Henryville site? Visit Hoosier Energy's Renewable Energy page.
How Landfill Methane Gas Facilities Work
- High-capacity landfill methane gas (LMG) contributes to the reduction of greenhouse gases by destroying methane and using the remaining gas to produce electricity
- Landfill gas, which occurs naturally from decomposing waste, consists of about 50% methane, whose emissions are many times stronger than carbon dioxide and considered a contributing factor to global warming
- LMG facilities capture the methane and use it to produce electricity instead of flaring the gas into the atmosphere
Facilities
Hoosier Energy owns and operates 2 landfill methane gas facilities:
- 15-megawatt Livingston plant located on Republic Industries’ 460-acre Livingston Landfill near Pontiac, Illinois
- Livingston began operations in 2013
- 16-megawatt Orchard Hills facility in Davis Junction, Illinois, about 20 miles south of Rockford, Illinois
- Orchard Hills came on line in September 2016
- Renewable energy credits for the Livingston and Orchard Hills facilities are sold to third parties
Hoosier Energy produced power from coalbed methane at the Osprey Point Renewable Energy Station that opened in mid-2013 on the Merom Station grounds.
This site has now been decommissioned.