Kankakee Valley REMC

Cooperative adjusts policies to aid cooperative member-consumers in response to COVID-19. Kankakee Valley REMC, in response to the recent COVID-19 pandemic and guidelines issued by the state and local government agencies, will be adjusting current...

Located about 60 miles east of Chicago, Kankakee Valley REMC is a not-for-profit energy cooperative delivering electricity to 18,000 northern Indiana families, farms, schools and businesses. Based in Wanatah, we serve rural areas of Lake, Porter,...

Located about 60 miles east of Chicago, Kankakee Valley REMC is a not-for-profit energy cooperative delivering electricity to 18,000 northern Indiana families, farms, schools and businesses. Based in Wanatah, we serve rural areas of Lake, Porter,...

Kankakee Valley REMC recently presented the VNA of Northwest Indiana with a $5,000 grant through the Operation Round Up Trust community program. This grant will support the hospice program offered through the VNA. The VNA provides hospice care...

Applications are now being accepted for two Kankakee Valley REMC sponsored youth experiences. Youth Tour to Washington, D.C and Touchstone Energy Camp at Camp Tecumseh in Brookston, Indiana are great opportunities to enhance youth’s leadership...

Kankakee Valley REMC embraced the electric vehicle technology this year when they purchased a 2019 Chevy Bolt. Now they are anxious to share what they have learned with area residents and the cooperative’s membership at the upcoming electric...

Kankakee Valley REMC recently presented The Caring Place of Valparaiso with a $5,810 grant through the Operation Round Up Trust community grant program. This grant will assist the shelter in purchasing 48 beds for the new shelter scheduled to open...

We all know the joy in having new school supplies on the first day of school. Help us provide that excitement for the areas less fortunate students. We are collecting the following supplies to help in packing school ready backpacks. Supplies needed...

Above: Jeff Newburn, line superintendent for Kankakee Valley REMC, shows students a picture of an electrical box to help illustrate that electrical lines can be in the air or buried in the ground. More than 800 local fourth-graders will have the...

The Porter County Chapter of the Izaak Walton League of America recently installed specially designed roosting structures on a local conservation property to help several species of endangered bats. They were assisted by the Kankakee Valley Rural...