2011 Annual Report

Enough is Enough! I&M Wants You to Pay 22% More on Your Electric Bills (and the rate hikes won’t stop there).

            Indiana Michigan Power wants the Indiana Utility Regulatory Commission (IURC) to let them raise your base rates by an unwarranted $147.8 million! TELL THE IURC TO SAY NO!!! I&M’s scheme for excessive...

IGCC Settlement a Heist for Duke Energy: Duke “Bail Out” should be rejected!

            The settlement filed yesterday at the Indiana Utility Regulatory Commission between Duke Energy, the Indiana Office of the Utility Consumer Counselor (OUCC), Nucor Steel, and the Duke Energy Indiana...

Duke's Edwardsport Plant Debacle

  In 2006, Duke Energy filed for Indiana Utility Regulatory Commission (IURC) approval of their Edwardsport Integrated Gasification Combined Cycle (IGCC) coal-fired power plant with a price tag of $1.985 billion.  From the beginning, the plant...

Survey shows "political divide" on energy issues is a myth. Americans can work together for cleaner energy future

“The Verdict is clear: Clean Energy Advocates Are the Majority, Not the ‘Fringe’; Survey Finds Across-the-Board Political Support for Shifting from Dirty Energy.” Republicans, Independents and Democrats agree that the United States should move away from...

Citizens Action Coalition applauds Rep. Suzanne Crouch for standing up for Hoosier Consumers

            Today in the Indiana House Ways & Means committee hearing on SB344, Rep. Suzanne Crouch (R, Evansville) offered an amendment to remove language from the bill intended to further enable the Indiana...

CAC Statement on MCPO Indictment of Former IURC Chairman David Lott Hardy

            CAC Executive Director Kerwin Olson issues the following statement: Citizens Action Coalition’s faith in our justice system is renewed today with the announcement of these indictments. CAC remains firm in...

IURC silence on Duke/Progress Merger Lack of Jurisdiction or Lack of Transparency?

            Today, in a letter to Indiana Utility Regulatory Commission Chairman James Atterholt, the Citizens Action Coalition raised concerns with respect to the Commission’s apparent lack of engagement to date, at...

IURC silence on Duke/Progress Merger Lack of Jurisdiction or Lack of Transparency?

            Today, in a letter to Indiana Utility Regulatory Commission Chairman James Atterholt, the Citizens Action Coalition raised concerns with respect to the Commission’s apparent lack of engagement to date, at...

SB251: Indiana Legislature Votes to Raise Taxes through Utility Bills; House adds eminent domain to bill

April 2011   Once again, utility ratepayers, aka taxpayers, remain invisible to 104 of the 150 elected officials in the Indiana General Assembly. On Thursday, both Chambers of the General Assembly voted to raise the utility bills of Hoosiers.Two...