Forrest Lucas has hired lawyers to help the Concerned Citizens of Crawford County in their opposition to a proposed wood-burning
power plant near Milltown in southern Indiana.
The word “nuclear” isn’t even mentioned, but Senate Bill 69 is a virtual launch code for reviving attempts
at commercial nuclear power in Indiana.
The Purdue University-based State Utility Forecasting Group predicts that Indiana’s electricity rates could rise by 2013 due
to more stringent environmental guidelines.
The utility that asked state regulators permission to have customers pay $121 million for a geological study now seeks $42
million.
The Hoosier Environmental Council and Citizens Action Coalition see an expansion of the state’s
“net metering” policy as achievable during the short legislative session that starts Jan.
5.
Citizens Energy Group is redirecting to community groups more than $413,000 that it was to spend on environmental upgrade
projects at its former coke oven facility in Indianapolis, which closed in 2007.
The retired president and CEO of the former Indiana Gas Co. has donated $1 million to the philanthropic wing of a central
Indiana hospital network.
Legislation that could bring more wind turbines and solar power projects to the state failed in the last session’s closing
hours.
Indianapolis Mayor Greg Ballard pulled out his predecessor Steve Goldsmith’s Republican playbook and began exploring a host
of privatization proposals in an effort to save money.
Hoosier Energy, which supplies electricity to customers in 48 counties in central and southern Indiana, has settled a dispute
that had threatened to plunge the utility into bankruptcy.
The Indiana Utility Regulatory Commission’s goal is annual statewide energy savings of 2 percent within a decade.
Carmel-based Midwest Independent Transmission System Operator said it would continue to scout for sites in the Indianapolis
area.
Indianapolis-based Miller Pipeline Corp. announced Monday morning that it has purchased Illinois-based Elcon Pipeline Inc.,
marking the company’s fifth acquisition in the past four years.
The state’s utility consumer agency is opposing Duke Energy’s request to have customers pay $121 million to
study where to inject underground the carbon dioxide to be produced by its Edwardsport plant.
The city of Carmel has agreed to buy about 12 acres adjacent to the Mansion at Oak Hill for a new well field.
Carbon dioxide produced by a proposed coal gasification plant near the southern Indiana town of Rockport would be used to
help boost oil production in the Gulf of Mexico under a plan by the company leading the project.
Indianapolis Power & Light faces potential fines and capital expenditures after allegedly updating three generating
plants over 23 years without adding the most modern pollution controls.
Duke Energy Corp. said the cost of the plant it’s building in southwestern Indiana has risen another $150 million.
At full tilt, the units of Meadow Lake I Wind Farm in Brookston can generate about 200 megawatts, enough
to power 60,000 average size homes in a year.
Carmel’s ACES Power Marketing LLC plans to invest $6.6 million to expand its West 99th Street headquarters—a move
that could allow it to add 40 jobs, the Indiana Economic Development Corp. said early Monday.
