The Speedway Town Council has approved an increase to water and wastewater rates to fund capital improvements to its aging water and wastewater infrastructure.

Consumer advocates want Gov. Eric Holcomb to extend the winter moratorium on utility disconnects for three months -- giving local nonprofits time to address a backlog of applications for assistance.

Rates are set to decrease by nearly 6 percent in two phases — the first is effective immediately, and the second will take effect in January 2023.

Businesses, such as gas stations, would be able to sell electric vehicle charging under a bill that passed the state Senate on Monday.

The amendment requires businesses that sell electric vehicle charging to get their energy from their local utility.

A natural gas plant in Morgan County that's been down for more than nine months could be up and running again before the end of June.

The northern Indiana utility NIPSCO held a ribbon cutting on Friday for its new wind farm in White County, which the company says will power some 80,000 Hoosier homes.

Northern Indiana Public Service Co. has started work on two new solar farms in northwest Indiana that will generate a combined 465 megawatts of power when they come online next year.

AES Indiana's Eagle Valley plant near Martinsville ran into problems in late April when crews were restarting it after a planned maintenance outage, the company told the state utility commission.

The northern Indiana utility NIPSCO plans to remove coal ash from five ponds at its Michigan City Generating Station which will close by 2028, but will keep a legacy coal ash pond in place as well as coal ash fill on the site.