By Greg Ellis, vice president of energy and environmental policy To borrow the title of Shakespeare’s comedy, this short session was predicted to be Much Ado About Nothing in the areas of energy, environment, infrastructure and alcohol. As things turned out, the pace was more like the movie series Fast and Furious. Let’s take a look at the highlights [...]
House Bill 1414 (Retirement of Electric Generation Facilities), authored by Rep. Ed Soliday (R-Valparaiso), narrowly passed out of the House by a vote of 52-41. The often amended bill, in its current version, prohibits a public utility from shutting down a legacy power generation resource in which the public utility has an ownership interest unless the public utility provides [...]
Business Would Pay Extra for Stormwater Infrastructure Under Proposed Bill SB 46 – Storm Water Fee Exemptions Authored by Sen. Aaron Freeman (R-Indianapolis) This bill provides that the board of a municipal department of storm water management, the board of a county department of storm water management, or the board of public works of a consolidated city may not [...]
Senate Bill 472 – Utility Rates and Acquisitions Authored by Sen. Eric Koch (R-Bedford) This bill provides that an order affecting rates of service may be entered by the Indiana Utility Regulatory Commission (IURC) without a formal public hearing in the case of any public or municipally owned utility that serves less than 5,000 customers or has initiated a [...]
Multigenerational workplaces are common today. In fact, you’re hard pressed to find a workplace that doesn’t have at least two, if not three, generations working side by side. Get ready to add a fourth generation: Generation Z or Gen Z, for short. It makes sense; members of this generation were born between 1995 and 2010 and are starting to [...]
