The new contract would allow Citizens to purchase steam from Reworld Indianapolis Inc.’s waste-to-energy facility on Harding Street at a lower rate than what the utility has paid for the past two decades.
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If fulfilled, the proposed agreements signal an end for some potential legal roadblocks to the development of the Citizens-Lebanon Water Supply Program.
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“The Indy Chamber is where business and community come together to move central Indiana forward,” Harrison said in a statement.
Citizens Energy said Eagle Creek will be one of 10 water sources that will be part of the supply program, which will provide 25 million gallons of water per day to Lebanon and the LEAP District by 2031.
The Indiana Office of Utility Consumer Counselor and the Citizen’s Action Coalition both said a settlement plan over electricity rates between AES Indiana, the city and numerous large businesses was not acceptable.
The newly appointed Indiana Utility Consumer Counselor didn’t stop there—the office also recommended a multimillion-dollar reduction of the utility’s current base rate.
Planned locations for the new power units are AES Indiana plants at Petersburg in Pike County, Eagle Valley in Martinsville, or Harding Street in Indianapolis.
Mickey Shuey The new project would involve Citizens Energy likely tapping into water systems in Westfield and Whitestown to sell the resource to Lebanon Utilities for the city’s growing needs, though discussions are ongoing, officials said.
Citizens Energy Group is focusing on the Martindale-Brightwood neighborhood in the utility’s next phase of a plan—predicted to cost $500 million—to replace all remaining lead service lines that connect Indianapolis homes and businesses to water.
The move comes five months after the utility company agreed to supply up to 10 million gallons of water to the advanced manufacturing district by 2027.
Citizens Energy Group, which provides utility services to 900,000 people in the Indianapolis area, said Wednesday that it projects monthly natural gas heating bills will decrease during the winter heating season.
West Lafayette City Council members expressed a desire for more research from third parties and greater transparency from Indiana Economic Development Corp. officials, who they said have not approached them about the proposed pipeline.
The move by Citizens Energy Group comes amid ongoing recruitment efforts by the Indiana Economic Development Corp. to lure companies in high-tech industries to Boone County.
Intera Inc., an Austin, Texas-based water resources planning company, is leading the study into future water availability in the county.
Utilities Citizens Energy Group and CenterPoint Energy said natural gas prices, which spiked a year ago, will be even higher this winter, leading to costlier heating bills in Indiana.
Citizens Energy Group on Thursday announced an agreement with landlord JPC Affordable Housing that will result in the sale of four properties and relieve most of JPC’s past-due utility-bill debt, now totaling more than $1.9 million.
Citizens Energy Group announced Wednesday that it wants to acquire a small, little-known political subdivision in Marion County that was months away from starting construction of its own wastewater treatment plant to avoid Citizens’ rate hikes.
The landlords are many months and more than $2 million behind on utility bills, putting more than a thousand households at risk of homelessness should Citizens Energy Group cut utility services to the complexes.
The lawsuit also alleges that the owners of the complexes defrauded both Citizens Energy Group and residents by collecting payments that the owners said would go to utilities—but didn’t.
Five days after announcing a deal with Citizens Energy Group to restore water service to tenants at two south-side Indianapolis apartment complexes, officials said they’re planning to get the city’s money back, but a lack of communication with the properties’ owners could complicate matters.
Citizens Energy Group said it would use various measure to keep prices down even though the market price for natural gas is about double the level of last fall.
Citizens Energy Group, which maintains the underground steam system downtown, shut off the pipe near the site of the incident at Senate Avenue and Michigan Street.
