NIPSCO Utility Bill Increase Protest Merrillville Indiana

NIPSCO Protest – Merrillville Indiana

📢 COMMUNITY PROTEST NIPSCO (Merrillville, IN)
🗓 Wednesday, February 4th
⏰ 1:00 PM – 6:00 PM
📍 NIPSCO – Merrillville, Indiana
NIPSCO is charging our community more than ever, and families are paying the price.
I personally know people who could not afford their electric bills and had their power shut off in the middle of winter.
This is not okay.
We are coming together to demand fair rates, transparency, and accountability.
👉 Come for 30 minutes or stay the whole time
🪧 Some signs will be provided (bring your own if you can)
🔥 Heating areas available
☕ Hot coffee provided
🧥 Dress warm
📣 CALL TO ACTION:
We are calling on local leaders, city officials, state representatives, and consumer advocates to show up, listen, and respond.
We also invite local news and media outlets to cover this protest and help amplify the voices of families being impacted.
No one should lose heat because they can’t keep up with rising utility costs.
If you believe electricity is a necessity, not a luxury, please stand with us.
Enough is enough.

Stand up for our community.

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You can Volunteer, get answers, and Contact them 

 

WHAT THEY’RE DOING TO YOUR BILL (starting 1/1/26):
• +$8.53/month on the average home (729 kWh)
• That’s a 9 % hike — AFTER they already raised rates 25 % last year
• $260 million a year in documented OVER-CHARGES
$47.8 M “Corporate Support” bucket with ZERO invoices attached
$18.4 M CEO-pay raise baked into YOUR rates
New federal “renewable penalty” they lobbied FOR — now YOU pay it
$52 M FROM big factories TO residential customers (industrial ROE drops, yours spikes)
Smart meters over-billed $29.4 M

• NIPSCO asked for $368.7 m annual increase (≈ +17 % on residential bills).
• OUCC expert model shows only $230.4 m is justified – a $138.3 m over-reach .
• Low Income Program Killed – Only Customers that are 151-250% below the federal poverty level who have received a disconnect notice can apply for emergency assistance. (EAP – Energy Assistance Program)
• Remote-disconnect without knock Settlement authorizes remote disconnection for non-pay—no field collector visit required—temperature guard-rails only 20 °F / 90 °F, no medical-certification exemption allowed

You Can Access IURC CAUSE 46120 Filings, including attachments and exhibits that  contain this CSV, by searching the Cause Number 46120 in the IURC Online Portal
HERE

 When analyzed by an accountant Here’s The Bottom Line:

$138 m base-rate padding 
$60.8 m excess ROE (Return of Equity)
$29.4 m Smart meter over-charge kept (Interest Free Loan)
$52 m ECT pre-pay (Energy Charter Treaty) – A controversial International Investor Protection Agreement that has the EU, UK and Other Countries Withdrawing.
$14.2 m imprudent plant still capitalized 
≈ $294 m per year in documented, spreadsheet-proven over-charges – price-gouging hidden inside regulatory footnotes.

 

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Sue Baxter

Susie Young Baxter, CEO, has published PanoramaNOW Magazine for 31 years. Her hobbies are Camping, Boating, Hiking, Nature, Gardening and Outdoor Activities. She is an Artist, Graphic Designer, an Avid Seamstress, Dabbles in Homemade Crafts and Landscaping. Since her Father was a Health Teacher, she also likes homeopathic Health Solutions. Since blogging started over 10 years ago, PanoramaNow has been added to Newsbreak - a national news affiliate.