Clean Energy
Our Goal
Toxic, outdated coal-burning power plants are yesterday’s technology. By properly transitioning electricity generation to cleaner sources, Indiana can create high paying jobs in manufacturing and construction, stop legacy pollution on our lands and waters, improve reliability and modernize our energy grid, and reduce utility bills for consumers and businesses alike.
We are working with stakeholders and advancing policies to:
- Grow jobs
- Take advantage of federal funding
- Protect our energy grid
- Reduce pollution
- Build a clean energy economy
- Steward the land
Duke Energy Rate Hike: Another Setback for Indiana Consumers and a Step in the Wrong Direction for Renewable Energy
Late last month, the Indiana Utility Regulatory Commission (IURC) officially approved Duke Energy Indiana’s request to raise rates, a decision that will significantly impact thousands of Hoosier households. Under Duke’s [...]
Independent Community Solar in Indiana: A Statewide Solution that Promotes Energy Freedom, Could Lower Energy Costs
Indiana has a unique opportunity to embrace an energy solution that benefits the environment, the economy and our communities: community solar. As Hoosiers face rising energy costs and the urgent [...]
Statewide IRA Education
Benefits to your Community JOB OPPORTUNITIES: The Inflation Reduction Act is growing the workforce by adding hundreds of thousands of good, family-sustaining jobs across the entire country. They have [...]
How can growing clean energy grow your community?
Indiana’s cities and counties can take advantage of the economic boom around clean energy and our increasing energy demand while maintaining our Hoosier way of life: The only economic [...]
More on Clean Energy
Read the most recent blog posts on clean energy or check out the resources below!
Resources
Indiana: Solar and Clean Energy Jobs
Indiana already employs over 14,000 clean energy installers and maintenance workers. Indiana’s clean energy industry as a whole employs well over 65,000 individuals.
Capital Comments: Solar Energy Projects and Property Taxes
Valued between $5,400 to $13,000 per acre, solar energy increases local tax revenue which can fund roads, public safety, and schools.
Indiana Department of Agriculture’s Inventory of Lost Farmland Report 2024
From 2010-2022, Indiana lost 1.5-2% of its farmland largely to urban sprawl and commercial industry. Instead of losing land, let us preserve Hoosier farms with clean energy.
Coalition for Community Solar Access
Learn more about how independent community solar could help Hoosiers
Purdue agrivoltaic farming structures and software harvest solar power at lower cost and with minimal impact on crop yield
Hoosier farmers can continue to grow corn and soybeans while benefiting from solar energy leases.
NREL Agrivoltaics
Research: The process of combining solar energy and farming is called ‘agrivoltaics’ which can include sheep grazing, growing corn and soybeans, or bee keeping.
The Clean Economy Tracker (CET)
The Clean Economy Tracker (CET) tracks private-led investments and jobs in clean energy and technology manufacturing as well as non-manufacturing, commercial scale deployment projects in the United States.
