EXHIBIT 24

          The undersigned director and/or officer of VECTREN CORPORATION, an Indiana corporation (the “Company”), does hereby make, constitute and appoint each of RONALD E. CHRISTIAN and JEROME A. BENKERT, JR., and each or any one of them, the undersigned’s true and lawful attorneys-in-fact, with power of substitution, for the undersigned and in the undersigned’s name, place and stead, to sign and affix the undersigned’s name as such director and/or officer of said Company to a Registration Statement or Registration Statements, on Form S-3 or other applicable form, and all amendments, including post-effective amendments, thereto, to be filed by said Company with the Securities and Exchange Commission, Washington, D.C., in connection with the registration under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, of additional shares of common stock of the Company, and to file the same, with all exhibits thereto and other supporting documents, with said Commission, granting unto said attorneys-in-fact, and each of them, full power and authority to do and perform any and all acts necessary or incidental to the performance and execution of the powers herein expressly granted.

          IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned has executed this Limited Power of Attorney this 7^th day of September, 2011.

          Before me, a notary public, in and for said County and State personally appeared Carl L. Chapman, James H. DeGraffenreidt, Jr., Niel C. Ellerbrook, John D. Engelbrecht, Anton H. George, Martin C. Jischke, Robert G. Jones, William G. Mays, J. Timothy McGinley, R. Daniel Sadlier, Michael L. Smith and Jean L. Wojtowicz, who executed the above and foregoing Limited Power of Attorney on September 7, 2011.

          Witness my hand and Notarial Seal this 7^th day of September, 2011.

My Commission Expires: July 4, 2014

Residing in Vanderburgh County

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