Utility Rates and Regulation

When everything from food to healthcare is becoming more expensive, the cost of essential human services as simple as heating your home and turning on your lights must remain affordable for Hoosiers.

Citizens Action Coalition aggressively advocates for affordable utility rates.
 

CONSUMER AND ENVIRONMENTAL GROUPS SAY NO TO I&M FIXED CHARGE INCREASE!

INDIANAPOLIS – Citizens Action Coalition of Indiana (CAC), Sierra Club, Indiana Coalition for Human Services (ICHS), and Indiana Community Action Association (INCAA) filed testimony yesterday in the I&M rate case pending before the Indiana Utility Regulatory Commission (IURC) asking the IURC to reject I&M’s request to increase the monthly fixed charge from $7.30 to $18.00. Additionally, the groups provide evidence that the low-income customers of I&M are experiencing difficulties in paying their bills, and urge the IURC to order I&M to create a low-income assistance program to help vulnerable Hoosiers who are struggling to make ends meet.

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Vectren Rate Hike (2017)

On September 20, 2017, the Indiana Utility Regulatory Commission (IURC) approved a settlement reached between Vectren, the Office of Indi

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LaPorte County Commissioners and Citizens Action Coalition Jointly File Request for Reconsideration in NIPSCO Rate Case on Service Quality Issues

Attorneys for the LaPorte County Commissioners and the state's largest consumer advocacy group, Citizens Action Coalition (CAC), yesterday filed a Request for Reconsideration with the Indiana Utility Regulatory Commission (IURC) asking the agency to reconsider that portion of its recent NIPSCO rate case order dealing with customer service issues.

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Groups Tell IURC to Reject NIPSCO’s Monthly Fixed Charge Increase

Citizens Action Coalition (CAC) and Environmental Law & Policy Center (ELPC) filed testimony on Friday at the Indiana Utility Regulatory Commission (IURC) asking the IURC to reject NIPSCO’s latest request to raise the monthly fixed customer charge of all NIPSCO residential customers from $11 to $20, an astonishing increase of nearly 82%.

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Citizen Groups Join Edwardsport IGCC Settlement

A group of advocacy organizations, including Citizens Action Coalition, Save the Valley, Sierra Club, and Valley Watch, joined a modified settlement that was filed today at the Indiana Utility Regulatory Commission (IURC) regarding Duke Energy’s Edwardsport IGCC plant in Knox County, IN. The settlement, which builds off of an initial settlement reached in 2015, paves the way for additional consumer protections for Hoosiers and coal retirements in Indiana.

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