Indiana legislators are considering multiple bills to promote small modular nuclear reactors, including a controversial provision that would let utilities charge ratepayers for projects that may never be built. Such allowances, referred to as “cost trackers,” are widely used by utilities to recover early-stage project costs as well as variable or unexpected expenses between rate cases, such … Continue reading “Indiana utilities want ratepayers to fork out for small nuclear reactors”
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Utility Hoosier Energy announced plans to close the Merom coal plant in Indiana in 2023 but then sold it to a company called Hallador Energy that is keeping the plant open and reportedly making a deal with a data center developer. Experts note that ensuring data centers are actually using renewable energy around the clock is extremely difficult … Continue reading “Indiana advocates press for data center pause amid rising energy demand”
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$7.5B loan would help scale up battery production in Indiana Aiming for 67 gigawatt-hours of annual capacity there DOE loan comes from same program that supported Tesla The Department of Energy on Monday said it is prepared to loan up to $7.5 billion to Stellantis and Samsung SDI for battery production in Indiana. The conditional … Continue reading “Biden admin loans Stellantis and Samsung $7B for Indiana battery factory”