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LCG, December 24, 2025--The U.S. Secretary of Energy today issued emergency orders to keep two Indiana coal plants operational, with the stated goal to ensure Americans in the Midwest region of the United States have access to affordable, reliable, and secure electricity heading into the winter months. The orders direct CenterPoint Energy, the Northern Indiana Public Service Company (NIPSCO), and the Midcontinent Independent System Operator, Inc. (MISO) to take all measures necessary to ensure specified generation units at both the F.B. Culley and R.M. Schahfer generating stations in Indiana are available to operate.
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LCG, December 18, 2025--RWE and Indiana Michigan Power Company (I&M), an American Electric Power (AEP) company, today announced their partnering to provide new wind power generation capacity online to meet Indiana’s growing electricity demand. The companies signed a 15-year power purchase agreement (PPA) for the total output from RWE’s 200 MW Prairie Creek wind project in Blackford County, Indiana. I&M will purchase electricity from the wind project, which will further diversify its portfolio and be consistent with its all-of-the-above strategy to secure generation for its rapidly growing electricity demand.
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Industry News
Bonneville to Increase Rates
LCG, Sept. 5, 2000Citing high prices and higher customer demand, Bonneville Power Administration said on Friday it was "forced" to alter its proposed power rates for the next five years. Cutting through the federal agency's casuistry, that means it will extract more money from its customers.Bonneville said in a news release it "intends to revise the Cost Recovery Adjustment Clause (CRAC) of its 2002-2006 rates so the agency can strengthen its ability to cover its costs over the 2002-2006 rate period." The agency added that it "is not proposing an increase in its basic power rates for the five-year rate period and does not expect to make any change in its basic rates or the CRAC in the first year." That sounds like rates won't change until 2003, but after that look out."Our intent is to limit the scope of the modifications primarily to a revision of the Cost RecoveryAdjustment Clause to make it more robust in years two through five of the rate period," explainedJudi Johansen, Bonneville administrator.What's happening is, electricity consumers in Bonneville's market are trying to hedge against higher power prices by contracting for the agency's cheap federal power and Bonneville keeps signing the contracts even though it doesn't produce enough of that cheap power. So it has to go into the market and buy power and the whole concept of federal power takes a beating.Bonneville's proposal is an adjustment to a current rate filing it made with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission earlier this year. Johnson said the agency's customers "are asking for possibly 1,400 average megawatts more than we anticipated in the rate case. Had we stayed with our original rate proposal, the amount of power purchases we would have had to make at the prices we might very well see over the next five years, would have put our financial stability at risk."Confident in the outcome, Bonneville will go on signing contracts until October 31.
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