Rebecca Thiele

1 week ago | lpm.org | Rebecca Thiele

According to the American Clean Power Association, Indiana made big waves in clean energy during the first quarter of this year. Indiana added the third most solar of any state and quadrupled its battery storage. Most of Indiana's new battery storage comes from AES Indiana's new 200 megawatt facility at its Petersburg Generating Station in Pike County. These stand-alone batteries allow utilities to buy energy off the grid when it's cheap and store it for their customers or sell it back to the grid.

1 week ago | wbaa.org | Rebecca Thiele

Nearly half of all the solar installed in Indiana came online last year, mostly from the state’s utilities. According to the American Clean Power Association, Indiana also made big waves in clean energy during the first quarter of this year. Indiana added the third most solar of any state and quadrupled its battery storage. Most of Indiana’s new battery storage comes from AES Indiana’s new 200 megawatt facility at its Petersburg Generating Station in Pike County.

1 week ago | indianapublicmedia.org | Rebecca Thiele

Indiana is expected to add a lot of solar power in the next five years — roughly equal to more than five Hoover Dams. Most of that will be on the ground — something some rural Hoosiers don’t like. There could be another option — put solar on hundreds of millions of square feet of unused space on top of big box stores and warehouses. At Sweetwater Sound's distribution center in Fort Wayne, employees test out guitars before boxing them back up to sell. There’s a lot of activity.

1 week ago | lpm.org | Rebecca Thiele

Indiana is expected to add a lot of solar power in the next five years — roughly equal to more than five Hoover Dams. Most of that will be on the ground — something some rural Hoosiers don't like. There could be another option — put solar on hundreds of millions of square feet of unused space on top of big box stores and warehouses. At Sweetwater Sound's distribution center in Fort Wayne, employees test out guitars before boxing them back up to sell. There's a lot of activity.

1 week ago | wbaa.org | Rebecca Thiele

The chairman of the Indiana Utility Regulatory Commission, Jim Huston, announced he’ll retire in January. That leaves an important vacancy in the state agency that helps decide whether utilities can raise customers’ rates — including for new power plants. The IURC oversees more than 600 electric, gas, water and wastewater utilities in Indiana.