October 18, 2026 · Bartholomew · Johnson · NIPSCO · AES INDIANA · DUKE INDIANA · IM AEP
AES Indiana Rate Increase Rehearing, Duke Energy's New Industrial Sites, and Amazon's $100 Million Greenwood Plant
AES Indiana's rate increase rehearing is set for March 11, Duke Energy adds three Indiana industrial sites, and Amazon's $100M Greenwood plant pays near $100K.
The AES Indiana rate increase rehearing now has a date. A one-day evidentiary hearing is set for March 11, and the schedule means the $71 million rate hike keeps collecting on your bill for months before any ruling lands. Duke Energy also added three new industrial sites to its development pipeline this week, and Amazon committed $100 million to a Greenwood robotics plant paying close to six figures a year. Three different fronts, regulatory, real estate, and labor, all moving at once.
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AES Indiana Rate Increase Rehearing Set for March Amid Zay Settlement Fallout
The Indiana Utility Regulatory Commission has locked in a one-day evidentiary hearing for March 11 on AES Indiana's $71 million rate increase, approved 3-1 back in June. Citizens Action Coalition is now arguing that a Google data center project in Monrovia, revealed only after the case record closed, undercuts the load growth that justified the increase in the first place, and that the approved settlement put the largest rate increase on households while industrial customers got a smaller share.
- For the huddle
- If the rehearing finds that AES Indiana's settlement shifted cost burden onto households while protecting industrial rates, could our facility's rate class be asked to absorb more of the increase once the record is corrected?
SourcesIndiana challenges AES $71M rate hike as bigger power bills hit before rehearing (thecooldown.com)
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Amazon's $100 Million Greenwood Robotics Plant Pays Near $100,000 Average Salary
Amazon announced a $100 million, 585,000-square-foot advanced manufacturing plant at 1175 Collins Road in Greenwood on September 24, creating 300 jobs in CNC operation, welding, powder coating, and controls engineering at an average salary near $100,000. The move puts Amazon directly into manufacturing the robots it already buys from outside vendors.
- For the huddle
- If Amazon's wage floor at Greenwood pulls CNC operators and welders away from our shop floor, what's our retention and pay-scale response before 2028 hiring ramps up?
SourcesAmazon plans $100M Indiana manufacturing hub, 300 jobs (therobotreport.com)
Questions for your morning huddle
- If the rehearing finds that AES Indiana's settlement shifted cost burden onto households while protecting industrial rates, could our facility's rate class be asked to absorb more of the increase once the record is corrected?
- Could our supply chain plug into the agri-food manufacturing cluster forming around Grillo's Pickles and King's Hawaiian in Taylorsville, or into the light-manufacturing/distribution demand building at the St. Leon I-74 site?
- If Amazon's wage floor at Greenwood pulls CNC operators and welders away from our shop floor, what's our retention and pay-scale response before 2028 hiring ramps up?
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