The present state — November 2026

VERIFIED AT CLOSING, NOVEMBER 2026

The wires today: Mishawaka's technology posture at this build's closing is documented at the strength of the federal and the companies' own records, and it is stated without any vendor's brochure. The municipal frame still stands: the city still owns its fiber network and still runs its own electric utility — Mishawaka Utilities, whose water division's own page notes the efforts "are not supported by tax dollars" and whose electric department remains the city's supplier on the utilities' own account. The commercial record stands in the Federal Communications Commission's Broadband Data Collection, the providers' own filings of June 2026 as published that October: two fiber providers serve the city — AT&T's fiber, with symmetrical 5,000-megabit service shown available at about 92 percent of Mishawaka addresses on the filings' own estimates, and Surf Internet's at about 6 percent — beside cable and fixed-wireless service, with broadband at the 100/20-megabit standard shown at 90.3 percent of the city. The figures are the filings' availability estimates, printed as estimates; what they settle is the shape: a city that built its own government fiber in 2006 is, twenty years on, a fiber-served market on the commercial record too.

The river, still working: The oldest technology in this section is still in service. Indiana Michigan Power's own account of its hydro fleet (March 2024) names the Twin Branch Hydroelectric Plant — commissioned 1903 in Mishawaka — "the oldest hydro facility in AEP's fleet," one of six run-of-river plants the company operates on the St. Joseph, and the plant's record for 2025 shows it still generating. In November 2026 the company opened the plant's future to public comment, holding open houses as it evaluates what comes next for Twin Branch and its sister plants on the river — the future of the 1903 adoption an open public question as this section closes, as the Industrial Revolution leg also carries it. Beside the dam ground stands the newest layer: the Twin Branch Solar Facility, 2.6 megawatts of First Solar thin-film panels on some nineteen acres of Mishawaka industrial ground, in commercial operation since the end of 2016 — the power city's third technology on the same riverbank, after the waterwheel's heirs and the high-pressure steam that made the engineers' journals in 1941.

Sources:

1. Federal Communications Commission, Broadband Data Collection — provider availability filings as of June 2026 (published October 2026), as compiled for Mishawaka: AT&T fiber 5,000/5,000 Mbps at 92% availability estimate; Surf Internet fiber at 6%; broadband (100/20 Mbps) at 90.3% of the city — the filings' estimates, printed as estimates.
2. City of Mishawaka / Mishawaka Utilities, the utility's own pages — the municipal utility standing: "While owned by the City of Mishawaka, our efforts are not supported by tax dollars. We are a division of Mishawaka Utilities"; the Mishawaka Electric Department as the city's electric provider.
3. Indiana Michigan Power, "Operating and Maintaining Hydroelectric Facilities" (26 March 2024) — six hydroelectric plants on the St. Joseph River; "the oldest hydro facility in AEP's fleet — Twin Branch Hydroelectric Plant. It was commissioned in 1903 in Mishawaka, Ind."; run-of-river operation.
4. Moody on the Market, 10 November 2026 — I&M seeking public input, with open houses, as it evaluates the future of its Berrien Springs, Buchanan and Twin Branch hydroelectric facilities.
5. First Solar / Indiana Michigan Power, Twin Branch Solar Facility record (groundbreaking 28 October 2015; operation by end of 2016) — 2.6 MW, approximately 19 acres in an industrial park in Mishawaka, powering the equivalent of 350 homes; Global Energy Monitor's Twin Branch PV record concurring (2.6 MWac, 2016).