If you qualify, it’s time to submit your application for Indiana’s Energy Assistance Program (EAP), which can help you pay your heating and electric bills, with an average benefit for participating customers that was slightly over $500 in FY2024. In addition, utilities are prohibited from disconnecting EAP customers’ electric service in the winter, as well as during extreme heat in summer months – protections that CAC fought hard for, and that don’t exist for other households.
- October 1, 2026
As utility rates continue to increase across the state, Hoosiers are increasingly looking for ways to save money and conserve electricity. We know that energy efficiency is the cheapest and cleanest source of electricity because it is the electricity that never needs to be generated in the first place. That’s why one story we are highlighting in this month’s Citizen Power relates to some of the key energy efficiency programs available to Hoosier households.
- September 1, 2026
As Hoosiers across the state are trying to recover from unrelenting wind and rain, a political tempest continues to batter Indianapolis, and the pace of new developments in the utility and energy world has been nothing short of blistering. It now seems that not a week goes by without a new scandal emerging, a change in IURC commissioners, blowback to a major regulatory decision, or a development in a critical legal challenge.
- August 1, 2026
Many Hoosier communities are increasingly overwhelmed, facing difficult choices due to a lack of resources and familiar patterns of corporate exploitation. We are now at a critical juncture. As exploitation of Hoosier communities is being turbo-charged, affordability has become a top political issue, and data center opposition has swelled. We have an opportunity to reverse course and prioritize Hoosiers. The next year will solidify our state’s trajectory in many key areas.
- July 1, 2026
The IURC was thrust into the spotlight in June following its decision in the AES Indiana rate case -- and not in a good way. The IURC approved another steep rate hike, at odds with the OUCC's recommendation and CAC’s support for a rate decrease. The direct, public rebuke of the IURC after its order was followed five days later with a tweet from Gov. Braun declaring he replaced the Chair of the IURC with a different Commissioner.
- June 1, 2026
It’s no secret that folks are growing increasingly wary of the impacts of AI and the energy- and water-guzzling data centers that are needed to power Big Tech’s latest techno-fad. A new Gallup poll shows that a stunning 7 in 10 Americans now oppose constructing AI data centers in their community. For comparison, Gallup found that 53% of Americans oppose building a nuclear energy plant in their community.
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