Duke Energy Edwardsport IGCC Plant

Since 2006, Duke has been planning and building one of the most expensive coal plants in US history, and they want us to pay for it.

However, their gross mismanagement of the Edwardsport, IN project resulted in huge cost overruns, while behind the scenes Duke was schmoozing and hiring the people who are supposed to regulate them.

What has resulted is an ethics scandal that has brought down several Duke employees, as well as the Chairman of the Indiana Utility Regulatory Commission, and the question of who will be left holding the skyrocketing bill: Duke Energy or us?

The now $3.3 billion Edwardsport Integrated Gasification Combined Cycle (IGCC) coal-fired power plant currently under construction by Duke Energy has been shrouded in controversy since Duke Energy first filed for approval before the Indiana Utility Regulatory Commission (IURC) in 2006.  The approval of this problem plagued power plant is even more questionable with the burgeoning ethics scandal between Duke and the IURC.

On December 27, 2012, the Commission approved a Settlement agreement between Duke Energy and the Indiana Office of Utility Consumer Counselor (OUCC) that effectively closes the case on the ethics scandal and forces ratepayers to pay the price for an illegitimate power plant that never should have been approved to begin with!  The battle is not over though.  CAC will be filing suit against the agreement in the Indiana Court of Appeals so that Duke ratepayers can finally have their day in court.

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