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Residents plan protest as mayor blames IURC and data-center demand for higher NIPSCO bills
Summary
At Mayor's Night Out, residents and the mayor discussed steep NIPSCO utility bills; Mayor McDermott pointed to the Indiana Utility Regulatory Commission as the body that sets rates and to data-center demand and retired generation capacity as drivers. A resident announced a Feb. 1 protest at NIPSCO’s Hammond office.
Residents raised sharply higher monthly utility bills at the Jan. 28 Mayor’s Night Out. Mayor Tom McDermott described the drivers he sees behind the increases: decisions by the Indiana Utility Regulatory Commission (IURC), data-center demand for power and a lack of new generation capacity after plant retirements.
McDermott explained that IURC is a five-member body…
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