| Energy Issues Index On this index page, the most recent article is located in each category at the top. CAC Energy and Utility Update - February 13, 2004 Becoming
an Energy Star State: Standardization of Small
Generator House Bill 1529, which would have allowed state regulators to review mergers of Indiana utilities and impose fines on violators, hit a dead end after Sen. James Merritt, R-Indianapolis, chairman of the Senate Utility and Regulatory Affairs Committee, said he would not allow a vote on the bill. The Citizens Action Coalition urges you to vote against House Bill 1529. HB 1529 represents a worst case scenario for Indiana ratepayers and the Indiana economy. If HB 1529 is passed, hundred of millions of dollars will be unjustifiably transferred from ratepayers to gas and electric utility coffers. The electric power industry is in crisis of its own making. 120 years of Utility Hijinks in 60 pages Current Power Problems Rooted In Bad Energy Policy AEP Needs To Clean Up Dirtiest Plants Efficiency and Decentralized Power is better than 1950's-style "Build and Burn" management. An alternative way for Indiana to avoid California-style energy chaos ....“Repowering the Midwest: The Clean Energy Development Plan for the Heartland” CAC legal eagles build on $55 million AEP victory with federal, state cases Out-of-State Power Plant Developers Target Indiana NIPSCO CAC To Challenge NIPSCO Settlement In Court NIPSCO Deal is a Sugar-Coated, Poison Pill Being Forced Down the Throats of Electric Ratepayers NIPSCO Hit by Consumer Complaint, State Investigation Steelworkers, CAC agree: NIPSCO electric rates are too high Coalition Launches Legal
Campaign To Lower NIPSCO Electric Rates AEP-CSW merger settlement could predetermine ratemaking CAC frustrated in stranded cost, AEP-CSW merger cases CAC will continue to watchdog SIGECO-Indiana Gas merger Merchant Plants, Mega-Mergers Keep CAC’S Plate Full IURC cannot regulate holding company mergers, court rules Utility marriages leave consumers and workers with wedding bill blues Less competition as monopoly merger mania hits American Electric Power, Ameritech and GTE. Protest to settlement proposal in merger of AEP with CSW Corporation S.621 a bill which effectively repeals the Public Utility Holding
Company Act (PUHCA) Deregulation Electric Municipal, REMC electric companies face loss of both revenue and local control CHOOSE YOUR FUTURE: A Primer On Electric Deregulation PRO-CONSUMER Electric Restructuring Bills Unveiled in D.C. Electric Deregulation To Continue To Threaten Consumers Into 21st Century Hoosiers face attacks on affordable electric and gas rates on many fronts Study Shows Electric Deregulation Could Create Unfunded Nuclear Waste Liabilities That Could Exceed $50 BILLION Lobbying war against Indiana ratepayers in order to force electric utility deregulation through the 1999 General Assembly. Consumers’ worst fears are being realized as the results of electric industry restructuring plans have started coming in from the states that have rushed ahead to be first. Monopolies, big business to push for radical electric deregulation in 1999. Electric Deregulation Alert -Big electric monopolies and their largest customers are gearing up for radical electric deregulation. The public must act now to protect affordable electric rates and a clean environment. May 5,1998 Monopoly or Competition: Restructuring the Electric Industry2. Comments to the Regulatory Flexibility committee on Electric Industry Restructuring Gas New Universal Service Program to help low-income natural gas customers in central, southern Indiana - August 18, 2004 Consumers Win Round Two of Gas Deregulation Fight Deregulation craze reaches customers of Indiana Gas,
Citizens Gas Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Program Energy Assistance Program Begins Today, Available Funds Will Fall Short of Need.- Nov. 02 CAC continues efforts to ensure heating for low-income Hoosiers Other Energy ResourcesRatepayers for Affordable Green Electricity -All around the nation, citizens are joining together to ensure that we have a sustainable energy future where affordable, non-polluting electricity is available to all consumers. House Bill 1979 Siting Bill Passes Out of Committee With Core IURC Siting Authority Intact - February 27, 2001 Citizens Pack Hearing In Support of House Bill 1979; The Power Plant Certification and Siting Act - February 22, 2001
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