Northern Indiana Public Service Co.’s leadership said they would test their new GenCo spinoff business out with a $6 billion to $7 billion grid investment from a large, yet unnamed customer.

MISO’s Advisory Committee will continue to be led by its vice chair through the end of 2025 after the departure of Sarah Freeman from Indiana’s regulatory agency.

The tone of Infocast’s 2025 Midcontinent Energy Summit was noticeably apprehensive compared with last year, owing to political and regulatory uncertainty, load growth ambiguity, fluctuating tariffs and a pending complaint against MISO’s long-range transmission plan.

Indiana has a new law aimed at motivating new capacity in the state to serve rising load and restricting when utilities can shut down plants.

The 7th Circuit has tossed a temporary injunction against Indiana’s right of first refusal law and sent the case back to a lower court, leaving plaintiff LS Power with more work ahead of it to increase competitively bid transmission projects in MISO.

LS Power has lodged a complaint against MISO for treating Indiana’s right of first refusal law as if it’s in effect when it’s under a preliminary injunction.

The MISO Board of Directors approved a landmark, 24-project, mostly 765-kV collection of transmission lines and facilities for the RTO’s Midwest region at a cost of $21.8 billion.

Tensions are building between NIPSCO and the Citizen Action Coalition of Indiana over the utility's proposal to build a new natural gas peaking plant.

Indiana regulators are collecting information on whether Duke is prudently handling the self-commitments of its coal units in the state.