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LCG, December 24, 2025--The U.S. Secretary of Energy today issued emergency orders to keep two Indiana coal plants operational, with the stated goal to ensure Americans in the Midwest region of the United States have access to affordable, reliable, and secure electricity heading into the winter months. The orders direct CenterPoint Energy, the Northern Indiana Public Service Company (NIPSCO), and the Midcontinent Independent System Operator, Inc. (MISO) to take all measures necessary to ensure specified generation units at both the F.B. Culley and R.M. Schahfer generating stations in Indiana are available to operate.
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LCG, December 18, 2025--RWE and Indiana Michigan Power Company (I&M), an American Electric Power (AEP) company, today announced their partnering to provide new wind power generation capacity online to meet Indiana’s growing electricity demand. The companies signed a 15-year power purchase agreement (PPA) for the total output from RWE’s 200 MW Prairie Creek wind project in Blackford County, Indiana. I&M will purchase electricity from the wind project, which will further diversify its portfolio and be consistent with its all-of-the-above strategy to secure generation for its rapidly growing electricity demand.
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Industry News
Companies Launch Voluntary Emission Trading Exchange
LCG, Jan. 17, 2002--A consortium of mostly US-based companies, as well as the cities Chicago and Mexico City, have announced their membership this week in the Chicago Climate Exchange (CCX), a voluntary organization whose members will trade allowances to emit greenhouse gases as part of a four-year pilot program.Organized by Dr. Richard Sandor, who set up the international market in interest-rate derivatives, the exchange includes as founding members American Electric Power (AEP), Manitoba Hydro and BP, among others. Participants agree to a binding, aggregate reduction of 4 percent in greenhouse emissions compared with 1998-2001 averages, to be achieved by 2006. One reason for the participation of some members with operations in multiple countries is a desire to receive credit for overall reductions under the Kyoto Protocol, rather than needing to meet specific requirements within the borders of each participating country. The Kyoto Protocol, by which countries would be bound to reduce greenhouse emissions below 1990 levels, now requires Russia as a signatory to become enacted.The CCX would allow credit for offsets as well as reductions of emissions. These could be achieved by non-carbon-based renewable energy development, eliminating the release of methane from landfills or agricultural operations, and by planting trees, mainly if not exclusively in the US and Brazil. Overall, the companies involved in the legally binding agreement emit 700 million tons of carbon dioxide annually. Trading will be faciliated by an Internet-based platform.Many of the companies involved, which include Dupont and Ford Motor Company, would like to influence how any mandatory "cap-and-trade" programs covering greenhouse emissions in the US are implemented, and hope that experience gained in the CCX will serve as an advantage, should such legislation be enacted.
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