Wabash Valley Power Association is an electric generation and transmission cooperative

Utility cooperative

A utility cooperative is a type of cooperative that is tasked with the delivery of a public utility such as electricity, water or telecommunications to its members...

 headquartered in Indianapolis, Indiana

Indianapolis, Indiana

Indianapolis is the capital of the U.S. state of Indiana, and the county seat of Marion County, Indiana. As of the 2010 United States Census, the city's population is 839,489. It is by far Indiana's largest city and, as of the 2010 U.S...

. Wabash Valley provides wholesale power to 28 distribution cooperatives in Illinois

Illinois

Illinois is the fifth-most populous state of the United States of America, and is often noted for being a microcosm of the entire country. With Chicago in the northeast, small industrial cities and great agricultural productivity in central and northern Illinois, and natural resources like coal,...

, Indiana

Indiana

Indiana is a US state, admitted to the United States as the 19th on December 11, 1816. It is located in the Midwestern United States and Great Lakes Region. With 6,483,802 residents, the state is ranked 15th in population and 16th in population density. Indiana is ranked 38th in land area and is...

, Michigan

Michigan

Michigan is a U.S. state located in the Great Lakes Region of the United States of America. The name Michigan is the French form of the Ojibwa word mishigamaa, meaning "large water" or "large lake"....

 and Missouri

Missouri

Missouri is a US state located in the Midwestern United States, bordered by Iowa, Illinois, Kentucky, Tennessee, Arkansas, Oklahoma, Kansas and Nebraska. With a 2010 population of 5,988,927, Missouri is the 18th most populous state in the nation and the fifth most populous in the Midwest. It...

 that reach over 350,000 businesses and residences. The cooperative operates under the business model of the National Rural Electric Cooperative Association

National Rural Electric Cooperative Association

The National Rural Electric Cooperative Association is the organization that represents over 900 electric cooperatives in the United States. Independent electric utilities are not-for-profit and are owned by their members...

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Wabash Valley is a member of the PJM Interconnection

PJM Interconnection

PJM Interconnection LLC is a Regional Transmission Organization which is part of the Eastern Interconnection grid operating an electric transmission system serving all or parts of Delaware, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Maryland, Michigan, New Jersey, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Tennessee,...

 and the Midwest Independent Transmission System Operator

Midwest Independent Transmission System Operator

The Midwest Independent Transmission System Operator, Inc. is an Independent System Operator and the Regional Transmission Organization that provides open-access transmission service and monitors the high voltage transmission system throughout the Midwest United States and Manitoba, Canada...

 and a founding member of Touchstone Energy

Touchstone Energy

Touchstone Energy Cooperatives is a cooperative federation composed of over 660 local, consumer-owned utility cooperatives in 46 of the 50 United States. Touchstone Energy co-ops serve more than 30 million members. Electric utility cooperatives distribute power for 75 percent of the U.S. land mass...

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Wabash Valley's generating facilities make use of landfill gas generation

Landfill gas utilization

Landfill gas utilization is a process of gathering, processing, and treating the gas to produce electricity, heat, fuels, and various chemical compounds. The number of landfill gas projects, which convert the methane gas that is emitted from decomposing garbage into power, went from 399 in 2005 to...

, coal gasification

Coal gasification

Coal gasification is the process of producing coal gas, a type of syngas–a mixture of carbon monoxide , hydrogen , carbon dioxide and water vapour –from coal...

 and wind power

Wind power

Wind power is the conversion of wind energy into a useful form of energy, such as using wind turbines to make electricity, windmills for mechanical power, windpumps for water pumping or drainage, or sails to propel ships....

. Their program for members to purchase energy from renewable sources is monickered EnviroWatts. In May 2009, Wabash Valley's Renewable Energy Certificate was certified by Green-e Energy.

Wabash Valley Power Association was founded in Peru, Indiana

Peru, Indiana

-Demographics:As of the census of 2000, there were 12,994 people, 5,410 households, and 3,397 families residing in the city. The population density was 2,815.5 people per square mile . There were 5,943 housing units at an average density of 1,287.7 per square mile...

 in 1963 by five distribution cooperatives. Their membership grew over the years and the headquarters were relocated to Indianapolis

Indianapolis, Indiana

Indianapolis is the capital of the U.S. state of Indiana, and the county seat of Marion County, Indiana. As of the 2010 United States Census, the city's population is 839,489. It is by far Indiana's largest city and, as of the 2010 U.S...

 in 1976.

Members

• Boone REMC
• Carroll County REMC
• Central Indiana Power
• Citizens Electric Corporation
• Corn Belt Energy
• EnerStar Electric Cooperative
• Fulton County REMC
• Hendricks Power Cooperative
• Jasper County REMC
• Jay County REMC
• Kankakee Valley REMC
• Kosciusko REMC
• LaGrange County REMC
• M.J.M. Electric Cooperative
• Marshall County REMC
• Miami-Cass REMC
• Midwest Energy Cooperative
• Newton County REMC
• Noble REMC
• Northeastern REMC
• Parke County REMC
• Paulding-Putnam EC
• Steuben County REMC
• Tipmont REMC
• United REMC
• Wabash County REMC
• Warren County REMC
• White County REMC