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Trump has vowed to kill U.S. offshore wind projects. Will he succeed?

November 10, 2024 | Associated Press

Many of the largest offshore wind companies put a brave face on the election results, pledging to work with Trump and Congress to build power projects and ignoring the incoming president’s oft-stated hostility to them.

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Airport planning $47M solar canopy for parking lot

September 19, 2024 | Mickey ShueyMickey Shuey

The project, which would see the construction of a new solar-covered canopy over a portion of a lot south of the airport’s parking garage, is expected to generate about 10% of the terminal’s total energy needs.

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IBJ Podcast: New AES prez on goals, growing up in Indy and the system upgrades that led to billing mess

April 29, 2024 | Mason KingMason King

Brandi Davis-Handy discusses the customer billing issues, the challenges of growing the business and the company’s final push to eliminate coal as a source of energy for creating electricity.

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Boone County considers 2-year moratorium on new solar, wind projects

March 22, 2024 | Daniel Bradley

The move would come as Virginia-based Hexagon Energy develops plans for a 3,000-acre solar farm north of Jamestown in western Boone County and Florida-based NextEra Energy Resources renews interest in building a solar farm near Zionsville.

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AES Indiana buys large wind farm in northwest Indiana

March 7, 2024 | John RussellJohn Russell

The Indianapolis-based utility said the acquisition would provide $22.2 million in cost savings to customers over the next six years and advance efforts to provide sustainable energy solutions.

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UAW strike underscores future of EV manufacturing in Indiana

October 20, 2023 | Peter Blanchard

Union leaders want promises from the Big Three automakers that their wave of new electric vehicle battery plants will fall under the UAW’s contract and that workers at those plants will make UAW assembly wages of $32 an hour.

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Lilly to install $10M worth of solar panels at two Indianapolis campuses

September 25, 2023 | John RussellJohn Russell

The solar structures are designed to help generate power for the company and reduce its carbon footprint.

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Indiana clean energy employment growing, new report says

September 18, 2023 | Casey Smith, Indiana Capital Chronicle

Every clean energy sector in Indiana added jobs in 2022 according to Clean Jobs America, and the Indianapolis-Carmel-Anderson metropolitan areas led all metros for the most clean energy jobs.

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Inflation Reduction Act foes race to repeal climate, drug pricing programs

June 18, 2023 | The Washington Post

A growing roster of corporate and political foes has started to lay siege to the law, hoping to erode some of its key provisions before they can take effect.

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2023 Innovation Issue: Fields of fortune

May 26, 2023 | John RussellJohn Russell

But nearly half of Indiana’s corn is turned into ethanol as a fuel blend for cars, and nearly one-quarter of the soybean crop is turned into biodiesel for heavy-duty trucks.

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Indiana gears up to turn manure into renewable energy

April 7, 2023 | John RussellJohn Russell

Biogas is still a tiny sliver of the energy world, accounting for less than 1% of Indiana’s energy generation. But some utility experts are keeping their eye on it as a sleeper source of energy.

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Money debate begins in Statehouse over transition to green energy

March 10, 2023 | John RussellJohn Russell

A bill advancing through the Legislature would add natural gas to the list of clean-energy projects state utility regulators could consider for a financial incentive known as “construction work in progress,” or CWIP for short.

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Renewable energy advocates seek legislative daylight for more solar and wind farms

March 10, 2023 | Peter Blanchard

An Indiana Senate bill looks to provide incentives to encourage counties to adopt developer-friendly ordinances for solar and wind projects, but local objections persist.

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Cummins reveals Accelera as new brand for its green-tech power biz

March 8, 2023 | Susan OrrSusan Orr

The rebranding is an attempt to differentiate what until now had been known as Cummins’ New Power business unit, giving it a separate identity from the rest of the 104-year-old company, which has traditionally been known for its diesel engines.

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Indiana group joins forces with Illinois, Michigan coalition on hydrogen hub effort

February 17, 2023 | Lesley WeidenbenerLesley Weidenbener

The program aims to award $7 billion to fund six to 10 hydrogen hub projects focused on the production, processing, delivery, storage and end use of clean hydrogen, with the goal of boosting the nation’s hydrogen economy.

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Committee advances changes to Indiana carbon sequestration pilot project

February 14, 2023 | Casey Smith, Indiana Capital Chronicle

The proposal seeks to advance the construction of carbon capture and sequestration projects, while also giving special privileges to a company preparing to undertake the nation’s largest carbon dioxide storage project.

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Indiana gets the nod to proceed with federal hydrogen hub proposal

January 30, 2023 | Susan OrrSusan Orr

The Indiana coalition, which received U.S. Department of Energy encouragement to submit a full proposal, is now deciding whether to join forces with other applicants for a better chance of securing a portion of $7 billion in federal funding.

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Indiana gasoline tax dropping 3 cents per gallon in January

December 21, 2022 | Associated Press

A total of 52.9 cents per gallon in state taxes will be charged during January under rate changes released Tuesday by the Indiana Department of Revenue.

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Large Indiana cities and employers ask Duke, AES for more clean-energy options

December 15, 2022 | IBJ Staff

A trade group that promotes clean energy, Indianapolis, Bloomington, Walmart, Salesforce and Cummins were among those issuing a letter urging the utilities to offer more options to large energy customers to receive their electricity from renewable energy.

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Heritage Group finds success with venture fund

November 18, 2022 | Susan OrrSusan Orr

To date HG Ventures has invested nearly $200 million in a total of 30 companies, eight of which had been participants in The Heritage Group Accelerator.

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