Wabash Valley Power Association

Wabash Valley Power Association (WVPA) is an electric generation and transmission cooperative headquartered in Indianapolis, Indiana. WVPA provides wholesale power to 24 distribution cooperatives in Illinois, Indiana, and Missouri that reach over 350,000 businesses and residences. The cooperative operates under the business model of the National Rural Electric Cooperative Association. In 1963, five local distribution cooperatives joined together to improve their overall buying power in the electricity marketplace by creating a generation and transmission cooperative. Given the new organization’s headquarters in Peru, Indiana, a city on the banks of the Wabash River, the founders selected Wabash Valley Power Association as its name. In the years that followed, other local distribution cooperatives recognized the benefits of buying wholesale power through a larger cooperative and joined as members of WVPA. In 1976, WVPA’s offices moved to Indianapolis. Today, WVPA has grown to serve the wholesale power needs of local distribution cooperatives in a three-state area. WVPA is a member of the PJM Interconnection (PJM) and the Midcontinent Independent System Operator (MISO) and a founding member of Touchstone Energy®. WVPA's generating facilities make use of coal, natural gas, landfill gas, and petcoke gasification. In addition to supplying power, WVPA also provides a broad variety of business services to help its member systems better leverage their own resources and benefit from joint efforts with other nearby co-ops. WVPA has helped its members better serve their members by staying at the forefront of innovation in the power industry. From its instrumental role in establishing ACES, Touchstone Energy®, and MISO to developing highly successful outreach efforts such as the Energy Advisor program, WVPA has served its mission of supplying and delivering reliable wholesale power at a stable, competitive price and responding to members’ collective needs.

Wabash Valley Power is a not-for-profit generation and transmission electric cooperative serving 23 member distribution co-ops in Indiana, Illinois, and Missouri—who power more than 311,000 homes, schools and businesses.