Utility Rates and Regulation

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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.

Monopoly Electric Utilities Slam Hoosiers with Historic Bill Hikes

July 22, 2025

A damning new analysis by Citizens Action Coalition (CAC) exposes how Indiana’s monopoly utilities have imposed the most severe electric bill increases on residential customers in at least two decades — with some families paying nearly $50 more a month than just one year ago.

May 9, 2025

CAC and Vote Solar, with the assistance of Earthjustice, filed testimony recommending that the IURC approve the retirement of Duke's Cayuga coal units, reject the proposed natural gas units, and instruct Duke Energy to expand distributed energy resources, such as demand response, energy efficiency, and distributed generation.

February 7, 2025

An unbalanced settlement has been proposed in NIPSCO’s pending rate case that would target Hoosier families with larger rate increases so large and politically connected commercial and industrial customers can get smaller increases.

December 20, 2024

CAC filed the testimony of Program Director, Ben Inskeep, asking the IURC to reject NIPSCO's radical $42/month rate hike and remind NIPSCO that utility affordability is a priority and a requirement under the law.

October 15, 2024

CAC calls on state legislators to enact a moratorium on new “hyperscaler” data centers used to power artificial intelligence, and to create a task force to study what policies should be adopted before lifting the moratorium.

May 23, 2024

CAC declares its opposition to the proposed CenterPoint electric rate case settlement filed on Monday before the IURC. If the settlement is approved as filed, the average CenterPoint residential customer using 799 kWh would see their bill increase from $154.02, to $189.05, or an increase of $35.03 (22.74%).

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