May 4, 2013
Dan HumanState officials want to know how an Oklahoma City company managed to set up 30,000 Indiana accounts for a federally subsidized
phone program in less than a year. The Indiana Utility Regulatory Commission has launched an investigation into whether TerraCom
LLC is repeating federal violations it allegedly committed in Oklahoma.
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April 11, 2013
Kathleen McLaughlinAs citizens of Zionsville, residents of the Royal Run subdivision have had little recourse against the Whitestown-owned water
utility that charges them 78 percent more than its customers to the north.
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April 4, 2013
Associated PressThe House Utility Committee approved a bill Wednesday that would send the $2.8 billion project back to regulators for another
round of reviews unless the Indiana Supreme Court sides with the project's developers
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March 27, 2013
Associated PressJames Atterholt was first named utility chief in 2010 to replace David Lott Hardy, who was fired by Gov. Mitch Daniels amid
an ethics probe involving Duke Energy Corp.
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March 9, 2013
Chris O'MalleyMember of firm's emerging energy practice was once president of PSI Energy.
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February 21, 2013
Chris O'MalleyThe Indianapolis-based utility said the average residential water customer would see monthly water bills increase from $31
to $34.
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February 2, 2013
Chris O'MalleyUtility wanted to conduct a study to determine how to dispose of carbon dioxide produced by its Edwardsport coal gasification
plant.
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January 26, 2013
Chris O'MalleyAn 11-page utility bill in the Indiana Senate that a consumer group likens to “a money grab” would hasten and
expand a utility’s ability to recover additional costs from customers.
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January 15, 2013
Chris O'MalleyUnder the legislation, state utility regulators could order Indiana Gasification LLC to make refunds to gas customers every
three years if the price of synthetic gas it produces from coal is greater than the market price of natural gas over the period.
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January 12, 2013
Chris O'MalleyA synthetic natural gas plant proposed downstate need only tweak its contract with would-be gas purchaser Indiana Finance
Authority to comply with an October court ruling and to proceed with the project, Indiana Gasification said in a recent filing
with the Indiana Court of Appeals. But opponents of the plant, led by Evansville-based gas and electric utility Vectren, immediately
objected.
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December 10, 2012
Associated PressAn attorney for Duke Energy Corp. urged the Indiana Court of Appeals on Monday to reverse a state regulatory panel's decision
blocking the company's attempt to pass onto its customers the cost of damages it incurred during a 2009 ice storm.
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October 5, 2012
Chris O'MalleyThe automaker had claimed in a complaint to the state that Duke acted in "draconian" fashion by holding onto the
seven-figure deposit for service at its Kokomo plant since 2009.
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August 4, 2012
Chris O'MalleyCitizens Action Coalition, Sierra Club, Save the Valley and Valley Watch are hoping questions over legal fees the utility
agreed to pay attorneys for industrial customers scuttle a deal over cost overruns at the $3.3 billion Edwardsport coal gasification
plant.
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July 13, 2012
Chris O'MalleyThe automaker is asking the Indiana Utility Regulatory Commission to look into its dispute with Duke Energy—and order
the utility to return a deposit it required to keep the power on at Chrysler's Kokomo plants.
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July 9, 2012
IBJ Staff and Bloomberg NewsThree former board members of Progress Energy Inc. said they would have voted against Duke's $17.8 billion takeover offer
had they known Rogers would remain in charge of the combined companies.
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June 30, 2012
Chris O'MalleyUtility denies claim it is trying to sidestep $2.6 billion cap on costs that can be passed along to ratepayers.
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May 19, 2012
Indianapolis Power & Light, others say money is at stake if tighter controls are enforced.
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May 4, 2012
Bloomberg NewsDuke Energy Corp. said first-quarter profit fell 42 percent after a regulatory settlement in Indiana increased costs and mild
weather reduced heating demand.
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April 30, 2012
Associated PressDuke Energy Corp. has agreed to cap the cost of its troubled coal-gasification plant in southwestern Indiana at $2.6 billion,
or about $700 million less than the expected cost of construction, as part of a proposed settlement announced Monday.
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April 21, 2012
Chris O'MalleyThe owner of Market Square Center is complaining to state utility regulators that Indianapolis Power & Light has failed
to provide reliable service to the office building, better known as the Gold Building, at 151 N. Delaware St.
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February 28, 2012
IBJ StaffCitizens Energy Group says savings from combining the city’s water and sewer utilities will be 13 percent higher than
expected and come two years sooner than previously predicted.
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February 14, 2012
Associated PressA utility executive told a legislative committee Tuesday that a drop in natural gas prices as a result of the nation's
shale-gas boom have made a proposed southern Indiana coal-gasification plant a project "whose time has passed."
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January 9, 2012
IBJ StaffA legislator is proposing that Indiana’s utility consumer counselor be elected rather than appointed by the governor.
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December 12, 2011
Chris O'MalleyDavid Lott Hardy, who was fired from his job as chairman of the Indiana Utility Regulatory Commission in 2010, is accused
of official misconduct.
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November 22, 2011
Associated PressIndiana regulators have approved plans for a $2.65 billion coal gasification plant at the Ohio River city of Rockport and
a state agency's 30-year contract to buy its synthetic natural gas.
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Laura-the festivals and tastings are free. What does is strengthen the sense of community with activities. What are those empty lots doing for the Village? it's sad you can't see the good that this progress can do for the area. No one is requiring anyone to shop there. I guess you'd rather see a Dollar store move in or no, we'd rather see the property stand empty b/c change is out of the question.
Read down to the part about Brizzi. Someone needs to subpoena his "purchases" of Red RockPictures and Cellstar and his corresponding bank records, I mean c'mon, I'd like to see his alcohol usage records, too. http://diana-vice.blogspot.com/2011_01_01_archive.html
Wonder if my neighborhood can advertise our "retention" pond and act like it is a beach too?
a new record at the '11 salebration until they realized that it was a futile effort to get their crapwagon moter and crapwagon car up speed. And then they just quietly slunk off into the night and never spoke of it again. Nothing to see here folks.
millions for putting a company's bumper sticker on one of its Lolas. But you gotta take what you can get.