A broad coalition of solar companies, along with environmental and consumer advocates, has prevailed at the Indiana Court of Appeals in a case challenging approval of CenterPoint’s “excess distributed generation” (“EDG”) tariff for rooftop solar.
- November 19, 2021
CenterPoint is currently before the Indiana Utility Regulatory Commission (“IURC”) seeking permission to charge electric ratepayers at least $23 a month to pay for two new fossil gas-fired power plants, which would produce a combined 460 megawatts of electricity, and a new fossil gas pipeline to be built under the Ohio River from Kentucky to SW Indiana. On Friday November 19th, Citizens Action Coalition (“CAC”), with the assistance and support of the legal team at Earth Justice, filed testimony asking the IURC to reject CenterPoint’s request.
- October 5, 2020
- June 30, 2020
There was cause for celebration yesterday after the Indiana Utility Regulatory Commission (“IURC”) extended the utility shut-off moratorium until August 14th. Sadly, tens of thousands of Hoosiers remain without shutoff protection as they are served by utilities not under the jurisdiction of the IURC. Therefore, the historic order by the IURC left out tens of thousands of Hoosier consumers who still face the looming threat of losing access to essential human services during the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression and an unprecedented global health pandemic.
- May 11, 2020
Indiana’s large investor-owned electric and gas monopoly utilities filed a petition before the Indiana Utility Regulatory Commission (“IURC”) asking permission to allow them to categorize lower energy sales as an expense caused by the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (“COVID-19”) and to allow them to collect those lost revenues from consumers. In other words, the investor-owned utilities want to charge consumers for the energy that they did not sell because of the global pandemic.
- May 7, 2020
A coalition of public interest, social justice, watchdog and environmental groups are joining forces to hold Duke Energy, the largest investor-owned U.S. electric utility, accountable for its policies, which impact almost 8 million Americans in six states – and by extension, impede the nation’s progress toward a clean energy future.
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