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.

The Indiana House of Reps passed a bill that could prolong the retiring or selling coal plants when the state is moving toward cleaner alternatives.

The IURC accepted a settlement negotiated between Duke Energy and local consumer groups on a statewide infrastructure upgrade plan.

MISO has named Kari Bennett as its new executive director of external affairs — the third person to take on the position in less than five years.

Solar energy advocates in Indiana are decrying a proposal that they say would effectively gut the state’s decade-old net metering law.