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Energy Efficiency

Energy Department announces $175M for Indiana power line upgrades

September 24, 2026
Joey Harris

Nationally, the SPARK project will replace about 1,500 miles of power lines with more efficient wires and add grid-enhancing technologies to about 21,000 miles of lines.

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Can energy efficiency help solve affordability woes?

July 24, 2026
Joey Harris

Electricity prices across the state have consistently risen over the past two decades, but there has been a large bump since 2020.

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Indianapolis finds energy-use benchmarking policy is a tall order

January 16, 2026 | Taylor Wooten

It’s been almost five years since the city joined sustainability-minded municipalities in passing an ordinance that requires owners of large buildings to report their annual utility use. Today, most building owners aren’t complying.

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AES Indiana seeks bids for new gas power units to meet needs of ‘large-scale customers’

June 2, 2025 | Daniel Lee

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.

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AES Indiana puts one solar-battery project online, gets OK for another

April 22, 2025 | Daniel Lee

In an announcement timed with Earth Day, electric utility AES Indiana said Tuesday that its new Pike County battery storage unit is now operational and that it received regulatory approval for a solar and battery project in Dubois County.

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Installation incentives: New law provides push for homeowners, businesses to go green

November 25, 2022 | Barb Berggoetz / Special to IBJ

Under the Inflation Reduction Act, signed into law by President Biden on Aug. 16, some consumers may qualify for more than $10,000 in rebates and tax credits for buying high-efficiency appliances and electric vehicles and other purchases to decrease their carbon footprints.

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Indianapolis launches first phase of building energy tracking program

March 15, 2022 | Leslie Bonilla MuñizLeslie Bonilla Muñiz

Called Thriving Buildings, the program’s initial phase includes voluntary participation by private building owners while mandating participation for some municipal buildings.

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Indianapolis-based RCA firm acquired by Arizona conglomerate

December 17, 2021 | Susan OrrSusan Orr

Indianapolis-based RCA Commercial Electronics, which sells both commercial televisions and LED lighting, has been acquired for $14 million cash plus other considerations. The deal closed earlier this week.

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City wants building owners to track utility use

July 9, 2021 | Leslie Bonilla MuñizLeslie Bonilla Muñiz

A city proposal to require tracking of municipal and commercial energy use could save millions of dollars, reduce emissions by thousands of tons and cut water usage by billions of gallons in less than a decade.

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2020 Innovation Issue: Catalyst firm breaks ground with transportation-technology projects

May 29, 2020 | Anthony SchoettleAnthony Schoettle

Most people have never heard of Energy Systems Network. But they probably either know of or have been affected by one or more of the not-for-profit’s forward-thinking projects.

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Companies are seeking to reduce their environmental impacts and increase sustainability

March 13, 2020 | John RussellJohn Russell

Increasingly, as the planet warms, pressure is building from environmentalists, investors, consumers and the general public for corporate America to do something about it.

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Q&A: Jeremy Lipinski on using solar power on the farm

March 13, 2020 | Lesley WeidenbenerLesley Weidenbener

Emergent Solar Energy opened in 2014 in the Purdue Research Park with the goal of helping local governments, schools, manufacturers and other companies make the switch to renewable energy. But it didn’t take long for agriculture to emerge as a key sector.

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Indiana House passes bill to slow utilities from shutting down coal plants

February 3, 2020 | John RussellJohn Russell

The bill’s opponents call the legislation a “coal-bailout bill,” designed to prop up the state’s struggling coal industry just as utilities are preparing to shut down aging coal plants.

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