Co-op Growth Target expansion and member-driven initiatives within Central Indiana Power and similar electric co-ops to cross-sell energy efficiency programs, demand management, and smart grid pilots given their rapid service area growth and customer base expansion.

Reliability Focus Position reliability and outage management solutions, such as fault detection, remote monitoring, and grid analytics, to support a small workforce (0-1 to 34 employees across peers) handling 950 miles of lines.

Community Engagement Offer member-centric programs and digital engagement tools that align with co-ops’ governance model (member elects directors) to enhance customer satisfaction, loyalty, and adoption of new infrastructure or technology investments.

Cost-Effective Tech Provide scalable, affordable technology stacks (cloud-based monitoring, energy analytics, mobile workforce apps) suitable for mid-sized co-ops with revenue in the low millions to tens of millions, emphasizing quick ROI and low total cost of ownership.

Benchmark & Expand Leverage growth patterns among similar REMCs to identify regional expansion opportunities, share best practices, and bundle services (ops, IT, cybersecurity, distributed energy resources) to maximize market penetration across Indiana co-ops.