Volume 19, Issue 1 - The Indiana Municipal Power Agency

Town of Coatesville
Municipal Power News
Volume 19, Issue 1
Group reinvigorates community with many event offerings
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n an effort to bring together the community and revitalize Coatesville’s downtown, a group of volunteers
has formed the Coatesville Downtown Revitalization (CDR) group. The committee is made up of business
owners and residents who want to promote a center of family activity within the community, as well as grow the
town’s local economy. CDR is accepting any and all volunteers who would like to participate. The group meets
on the first and third Thursdays of every month at the Coatesville Community Building at 7 p.m. One of the
organization’s main objectives is to work toward the goal of making Coatesville a participant in Indiana Main
Street, which is a statewide program administered through the Indiana Office of Community and Rural Affairs
(OCRA) that seeks to provide economic revitalization and professional assistance to participating communities.
While in the application process of Indiana Main Street, CDR is moving forward with planning events
for the entire community. Bingo will be held monthly at the Coatesville Community Building where there will
also be bake sales. Proceeds raised through bingo and the bake sales will go toward future town events. On
Saturday, April 13, another night of community bingo will take place. Additionally, the organization plans to
host a “Home of the Month” program in which a residence will be selected each month
in recognition of home and/or yard beautification efforts by the homeowner. A “Home
of the Month” yard sign will be placed at the residence for the month and a prize will
If Coatesville
be awarded.
residents are interested in
When the weather warms, the group also plans to host spur of the moment
information regarding how
weekend events such as ice cream socials and children’s pet parades. All of these
to join the Coatesville
events will include the entire Coatesville community, not only those who live
Downtown Revitalization
in the downtown area. Additionally, Coatesville will be hosting its first ever
team, please call either
car and craft show, named “Cruisin in Coatesville”, which will especially feature
(317)710-5226 or
Volkswagen vehicles. On Saturday, July 6, the community will open its doors to
(765)386-7205.
all of those who want to attend the event. Booth space is available for $25 by calling
Nikki Valorani at (765)386-2959.
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Energizing Indiana continues into new year
nergizing Indiana, the statewide energy efficiency program brought to your
community by the Indiana Municipal Power Agency (IMPA), experienced a
very successful first year. Approximately 2.1 million kilowatt hours of electricity
will be saved annually, thanks to those who participated in Energizing Indiana’s
home energy assessment (HEA) program. The HEA participants received the benefit of a more energy efficient
home, as well as an energy efficiency kit at no additional cost to them. Additionally, many participants signed
up for their home energy assessment through the Community Outreach Enrichment program, which led to
$32,000 in donations to nonprofit organizations in IMPA communities.
Though the numbers speak volumes, the impact of the Energizing Indiana home energy assessments is
better heard from the participants. See pages 2 and 3 to read about what participants have to say about working
with Energizing Indiana - professional advisors, accurate advice and a comfortable experience.
Go to: www.energizingindiana.com or call: 1-888-446-7750
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periodic publication of the
Indiana Municipal Power Agency
and the 60 communities it serves.
Editor: Niki Dick
Manager of Marketing Communications
niki@impa.com
Correspondent: Emily Atwood
Communications Specialist
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IMPA COMMUNITIES
Advance
Anderson
Argos
Bainbridge
Bargersville
Blanchester, OH
Bremen
Brooklyn
Brookston
Centerville
Chalmers
Coatesville
Columbia City
Covington
Crawfordsville
Darlington
Dublin
Dunreith
Edinburgh
Etna Green
Flora
Frankfort
Frankton
Gas City
Greendale
Greenfield
Huntingburg
Jamestown
Jasper
Kingsford Heights
Knightstown
Ladoga
Lawrenceburg
Lebanon
Lewisville
Linton
Middletown
Montezuma
New Ross
Paoli
Pendleton
Peru
Pittsboro
Rensselaer
Richmond
Rising Sun
Rockville
Scottsburg
South Whitley
Spiceland
Straughn
Tell City
Thorntown
Tipton
Veedersburg
Walkerton
Washington
Waynetown
Williamsport
Winamac
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Participants vouch for
Energizing Indiana’s benefits
ince Energizing Indiana began at the start of 2012, the program’s
offerings have been promoted in every issue of the Municipal Power News. The
Indiana Municipal Power Agency (IMPA) is extremely proud to be a part of a
progressive program that offers energy efficiency options at no additional cost
to customers in the communities IMPA serves. IMPA funds 100 percent of the
programs for customers in IMPA member communities. After a successful first
year, participants are also speaking up about Energizing Indiana’s benefits.
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compact fluorescent light bulbs
(CFLs), a low flow showerhead
and a sink aerator. The
advisor even offered to install
everything! At the end of the
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My energy advisor, Mike Bass, was wonderful. He
was very professional and full of energy efficiency
knowledge. He went through my entire house with
me to show me where and how I could make energy
efficient upgrades. He even installed pieces of the
energy efficiency kit that come with the assessment. It
is unbelievable that you get all of this at no additional
cost!
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remodeling in our home, but it really is the
little things that help with energy efficiency.
The advisors made me feel completely at
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and they are not trying to sell a thing, nor
are they representing any products. They
truly want to help make your home more
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Thirty years of IMPA: The initial years
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his year marks three decades since the Indiana Municipal Power Agency (IMPA) began operations.
Today, IMPA is the wholesale power provider to 60 communities, a number that has grown from the original 26
communities that IMPA supplied power to in 1983. So much about IMPA has changed since that time, yet the
foundation has remained the same, as well. Since the beginning, IMPA has sought to provide low-cost, reliable
and environmentally responsible power to customers. That mission remains true today. This timeline shows
IMPA’s initial years that helped build the foundation for what IMPA is today.
IMPA acquired an undivided
ownership interest in a
transmission system that
covers two-thirds of Indiana.
Transmission lines are used
to take generated power to
communities, such as the
municipalities that IMPA
serves, to then be distributed to retail customers.
1985
Raj Rao succeeds Jesse
Tilton as IMPA General
Manager. Tilton served
from 1982-1986 in this
capacity. Today, Rao
continues to serve the
interests of IMPA’s
member communities as
President and CEO.
1986
1979 - 1983
This map of Indiana was
published in IMPA’s first
annual report in 1983.
Each of the original 26
communities that received
wholesale electric power
from IMPA are featured
on this map.
A movement to create IMPA
began in 1979 when 11 Indiana
municipalities sought to provide
their electric utility customers
with low-cost, reliable and
environmentally responsible power
The first IMPA Board of Commissioners
– a goal that could be achieved
signed the papers to purchase a
bette
tte together than provided for
better
portion of ownership interest in Gibson
independently.
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These communities Station Unit 5, a generating station in
southwest Indiana
join together and advocated for
joined
en
enabling
legislation that would
permit
per
a joint action agency like IMPA to form. Indiana Code Section
8-1
8-1-2.2
was signed into law in March 1980, which allowed Indiana
municipal electric utilities to jointly plan, finance, develop, own and
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operate electric generation and transmission facilities. IMPA’s first year
ope
of ooperations in 1983 started with a bang. The original 26 communities
that
tha IMPA served with wholesale electric power sold their first revenue
bon in January and on the very same day purchased a portion of
bonds
Gibson
Gibs Station Unit 5, a generating facility in southwest Indiana.
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Construction on both the Anderson and
Richmond Combustion Turbine generating
stations is completed. These combustion
turbines offer IMPA a generating resource
that can start up quicker than a traditional
power plant, which helps to provide support
to IMPA’s other generating sources when
there is a high demand for electricity. The
facilities are IMPA’s first wholly owned and
operated generation resources. Together
these four units provide approximately 164
megawatts of additional generating capacity
for IMPA’s members during
peak periods and also reduce
IMPA’s dependency on
purchased power.
Anderson Combustion Turbine
1992
1993
1988 - 1989
The IMPA Board of Commissioners and IMPA
staff members celebrate the groundbreaking of
IMPA’s new headquarters, located in Carmel,
Indiana. Construction began in 1988 and
IMPA’s staff moved into the new facilities in
1989. IMPA continues to operate out of this
facility today.
Additionally, the towns of Edinburgh
and Waynetown began receiving wholesale
electric power from IMPA in 1989. At this
point, IMPA served 28 municipalities in
Indiana.
IMPA
acquired an
ownership
Trimble County Unit 1
interest in
Trimble
County 1, a
generating facility located on the
Kentucky side of the Ohio River.
IMPA was able to purchase a share
in the power plant because of an
amendment to IMPA’s enabling
legislation, adopted by the Indiana
General Assembly in 1992. This
bill allowed IMPA to construct
and purchase generation resources
outside of Indiana.
Look
for the
next Municipal
Power News issue
for information on
IMPA’s next ten
years.
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Achieving a balanced portfolio
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ot putting all of your eggs in one basket may
be an investment cliché, but it’s a colorful phrase
that paints a serious picture for the Indiana Municipal
Power Agency (IMPA). More commonly,
the phrase is used in instances of personal
investments, but IMPA also thinks in these
terms when it is building its generation portfolio.
When people make investments, it is
recommended that they place
their money in different funds
so that all of their savings
are not dependent on a
single fund’s performance.
The same is the case for
IMPA’s power generation
resources.
IMPA does not want
to provide all of its
wholesale electric
power from only
one source.
Rather, IMPA
prefers providing
the electricity needed to meet
the demands of the 60 municipal electric
communities it serves with a mix of resources.
This way IMPA is not completely reliant on one
type of power source, which allows the Agency to
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create the energy needed in a low cost, reliable and
environmentally responsible manner.
When IMPA is planning for a new generation
resource to help meet its communities’ energy needs,
the Agency diligently considers the resource’s risk
with its reward. A personal investor also balances
risk and reward factors when researching whether
or not to invest in a certain fund. IMPA considers
many factors that could affect a resource’s risk
or reward. It looks at the cost of
construction, how reliable the
source will be, the technology
available to build the resource,
regulations that must be met
to build and operate the
resource, as well as many
other factors.
A power resource
does not only mean
power generating
plants. Instead,
IMPA can turn to
renewable energy
sources, natural
gas, as well as energy
efficiency to meet its demand. These
additional options, coupled with traditional
sources, allow IMPA to achieve a balanced power
portfolio while not sacrificing its mission of low-cost,
reliable and environmentally responsible power.
REWARD
Test your energy efficiency IQ!
est your knowledge of energy efficiency and you could win a prize! Send your answer to the question
below to IMPA, and we will randomly select winners from all of the correct entries to receive an energy
efficiency prize pack. Please send your name and address with your answer, along with your mailing
address and e-mail address to: niki@impa.com or MPN Energy Efficiency Quiz, 11610 N. College Ave.,
Carmel, IN 46032.
Question What can you gain
Question:
from an Energizing Indiana
home energy assessment?
A. A more energy efficient home.
B. The assurance that the advisors
will not attempt to sell any
products.
C.A lower cost energy bill.
D.All of the above.
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Italian Ricotta Cookies
Recipe submitted by:
Filomena Grasse, Ricmond
Cookie ingredients:
- 1/2 C butter, softened
- 1 C sugar
- 2 eggs
- 1 tsp. vanilla extract
- 8 oz.ricotta cheese
- 2 C flour
- 1/2 tsp. baking soda
- 1/4 tsp. salt
Frosting ingredients:
- 2 Tbsp. butter, softened
- 2 C confectioners’ sugar
- 1/4 tsp. vanilla extract
- 11/2 Tbsp. milk
Instructions:
1. Grease cookie sheets and
preheat oven to 350 degrees.
2. In a medium bowl, cream
together butter and sugar until
smooth.
3. Beat in eggs one at a time
then stir in vanilla and ricotta
cheese.
4. Combine the flour, baking
soda and salt then gradually
stir into cheese mixture.
5. Drop rounded teaspoonfuls
two inches apart on baking
sheets.
6. Bake for 8 to 10 minutes.
Allow cookies to cool for five
minutes before removing to
wire rack to cool completely.
7. In a medium bowl, cream
together the frosting butter
and confectioners’ sugar.
8. Beat in vanilla and milk
gradually until a spreadable
consistency is reached then
frost cookies.
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Have a favorite recipe you would like to
share with other readers?
Send it to:
Cooking
Corner
Niki Dick
11610 N. College Ave.
Carmel, IN 46032
or email to niki@impa.com
Strudel Coffee Cake
Recipe submitted by: Juanita Grizzell, Anderson
Cake Ingredients:
- 1 box yellow cake mix
- 2/3 C water
- 2/3 C sweetened applesauce
- 1/3 C canola oil
- 3 eggs
Strudel topping
- 1/2 C flour
- 1/2 C brown sugar firmly packed
- 1 Tbsp. margarine
- 1 tsp. cinnamon
- 11/4 C powdered sugar
- 2 Tbsp. water
Instructions:
1. Greese 9 by 13 inch pan and preheat oven to 350 degrees.
2. Blend cake mix, water, applesauce, oil and eggs with electric
blender on low for two minutes then at medium speed for two
minutes.
3. Pour batter into pan.
4. Mix first four strudel topping ingredients together with a fork then
sprinkle on cake batter.
5. Bake for 30 to 35 minutes or until the cake springs back when
touched.
6. Stir the last two strudel topping ingredients together until
blended. When cake is cool, take the mixture and drizzle it over the
top of the cake.
Attention readers!
he Indiana Municipal Power Agency (IMPA)is investigating the possibility of distributing the
Municipal Power News electronically.If you would be interested in receiving this newsletter via e-mail
instead of in the mail, please send us your name, community in which you live and an e-mail address
to emilya@impa.com.We will add you to the list of those interested in receiving the newsletter
electronically.
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New businesses spring up in town
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he Town of Coatesville welcomes several new businesses that have opened their doors to the community.
- The Bookies Den, opening in March, will be Coatesville’s newest business. The store, which will
sell vintage books and art deco items, will be located in the lower level of The Red Horse Livery.
- The Flying Carousel Art Studio, showcasing the talents of artists Joseph and Nikki Valorani, is
located in the lower level of The Red Horse Livery. The store can be contacted at (765)386-2959.
- Scottish Pearl, a stained glass, metal and jewelry studio is located in the lower level of the Masonic
Building at 4951 Milton Street. The store also offers stained glass and jewelry making classes. Owners Lorri
and Jim Knapp can be contacted at the store at (765)386-6662.
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he Coatesville Downtown Revitalization group and
the Coatesville United Methodist Church will be hosting a
children’s Easter Egg Hunt on Saturday, March 30 from 2 p.m.
to 3 p.m. at the Coatesville United Methodist Church, located
at 4863 Milton Street. Children will be provided with bags and
candy. For more information about the event, contact Judy
Dunlap at (765)386-6380.
MARCH
Saturday, March 30:
Easter Egg Hunt
2p.m. - 3p.m.
Coatesville United
Methodist Church
Pages 2-3 – Energizing Indiana
testimonials
Pages 4-5 – IMPA’s earliest years
Page 6 – Balancing IMPA’s generation
portfolio
Mark your calendars
IMPA Commissioner: Steve Wingler
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