News Release

Feb. 1, 2012

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Media contact: Chase Kelley, (812) 491-4128 or kckelley@vectren.com

Vectren Corporation One Vectren Square Evansville, IN 47708

New Vectren program to help customers understand how their homes use energy, how to reduce consumption

Evansville, Ind. - Vectren Energy Delivery (Vectren) recently launched to 75,000 of its electric customers a direct communication that analyzes customers' bills and home characteristics to help determine how much energy their individual homes use compared to neighboring homes and those of similar size. In addition, customers also receive free and low-cost tips to help lower energy usage as part of the communication.
Accompanying this home energy report outreach is an interactive web site, which allows customers to track month-to-month and year-over-year energy usage, implement a plan to reduce consumption and then chart progress throughout the year. Customer communication related to this program will occur via mail about every other month for the next two years.
"This new energy efficiency program regularly delivers easy-to-understand home energy reports that are unique to each customer's household," said Doug Petitt, Vectren's vice president of marketing and conservation. "Essentially, the program aims to create a competition in which homeowners set and ideally exceed energy reduction goals to outpace neighboring customers."
The program, created by OPower, has been successfully implemented with more than 60 utilities in the U.S. and has helped drive 10 million households to save over 500 gigawatt hours of power since 2007 - or enough energy to power nearly 50,000 homes for a year. Vectren is targeting energy savings of 24,000 megawatt hours, which is enough to power more than 2,200 homes for a year.
Customers who are not included in the 75,000 random sample list are encouraged to use Vectren's online energy audit tool, which can be found at www.vectren.com/conservation , or to access the other energy efficiency resources and tips at this site. All residential customers are also offered a free on-site home energy assessment through the new Energizing Indiana initiative. Visit www.energizingindiana.com or call 888-446-7750 to schedule an assessment or to learn more.
Vectren's electric utility serves 142,000 customers in all or portions of seven counties in southwestern Indiana, including Dubois, Gibson, Pike, Posey, Spencer, Vanderburgh and Warrick.

About Vectren

Vectren Corporation (NYSE: VVC) is an energy holding company headquartered in Evansville, Ind. Vectren's energy delivery subsidiaries provide gas and/or electricity to more than 1 million customers in adjoining service
territories that cover nearly two-thirds of Indiana and west central Ohio. Vectren's nonutility subsidiaries and
affiliates currently offer energy-related products and services to customers throughout the U.S. These include infrastructure services, energy services, coal mining and energy marketing. To learn more about Vectren, visit www.vectren.com.
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