Citizens Action Coalition Executive Director Kerwin Olson

Vectren bucks Indiana legislature with plan to reduce coal mix 78% to 12% by 2025

Posted by Laura Arnold / June 22, 2020 / Posted in Northern Indiana Public Service Company (NIPSCO) / No Comments

Vectren bucks Indiana legislature with plan to reduce coal mix 78% to 12% by 2025 By Catherine Morehouse Published June 17, 2020 Dive Brief: CenterPoint Energy subsidiary Vectren Energy on Monday announced it would retire 730 MW of coal by 2023, leaving its resource mix at 12% coal-fired power by 2025.

Indiana coal bill stripped of language that could raise customer rates, heads to Senate floor

Posted by Laura Arnold / February 27, 2020 / Posted in 2020 Indiana General Assembly / No Comments

Photos from Indiana Senate Chambers and Gallery during Senate Utilities Committee hearing on HB 1414 on 2/27/2020. Photos by Laura Ann Arnold and Shannon Anderson. Indiana coal bill stripped of language that could raise customer rates, heads to Senate floor Sarah Bowman, IndyStar, Published 1:29 p.m. ET Feb. 27, 2020 | Updated 3:09

Vectren may seek approval to stop crediting new solar power users at retail rates

Posted by Laura Arnold / February 21, 2020 / Posted in solar, Uncategorized, wind / No Comments

Vectren may seek approval to stop crediting new solar power users at retail rates Mark Wilson, Evansville Published 5:00 a.m. CT Feb. 21, 2020 One of Vectren's 2-megawatt solar arrays consisting of approximately 8,000 ground-mounted, fixed-tilt solar panels on a 15-acre site near the northwest corner of Oak Hill Cemetery

IURC Rejects Vectren/Centerpoint CPCN for natural gas plant

Posted by Laura Arnold / April 24, 2019 / Posted in Uncategorized / No Comments

For Immediate Release April 24, 2019 Contacts: Thom Cmar, Earthjustice, (212) 845-7387, tcmar@earthjustice.org Kerwin Olson, Citizens Action Coalition, (317) 702-0461, kolson@citact.org Indiana Regulators Reject Utility’s Proposal for Massive Gas Plant The billion-dollar facility would have cost utility customers more for an unnecessary plant INDIANAPOLIS—Today, regulators at the Indiana Utility

SB 430 could revive Indiana net metering for solar

Posted by Laura Arnold / January 31, 2019 / Posted in 2019 Indiana General Assembly, solar / No Comments

Solar panel installers (L-R) Corey Kimball, Ryan Zaricki and Eli Metzler-Prieb place new panels on the roof of a home on Eau Claire Lane in Newburgh in February 2017. A new Indiana senate bill will reverse a 2017 law that reduced over time the value of privately generated solar power