Settling your energy bill every month isn’t optional. But if your utility is keeping coal plants running, you’re not just paying for electricity. You’re paying for coal ash pollution.

Clean energy sources like wind and solar have never been cheaper or more efficient. Yet, many Indiana utilities are backsliding on their promises to retire old coal plants. This comes at a time when the EPA is poised to roll back coal ash protections, putting our drinking water, air, and soil at an even higher risk of heavy metal contamination.

But if you’re a customer of Duke Energy Indiana, NIPSCO, or Indiana Michigan Power, there’s something you can do. Write your utility to let them know that you don’t want to pay for pollution. It takes less than one minute!

I’m a Duke Energy Indiana customer.

I’m a NIPSCO customer.

I’m an Indiana Michigan (I&M) Power customer.

Duke Energy Indiana

Duke Energy owns and operates three coal-burning power plants in the Hoosier state, and they don’t plan to retire all of them until 2038. In 2024, Duke Energy Indiana received an “F” in Sierra Club’s Dirty Truth report. According to Duke’s own 2024 Integrated Resource Plan:

  1. Cayuga Station, located in Vermillion County, will burn coal until 2032.
  2. Edwardsport Station, located in Vincennes, Indiana, will use coal for ‘coal gasification’ until 2035. This method still produces a lot of ash and is very carbon intensive.
  3. Gibson Station (located in Gibson County) is Duke Energy’s largest power plant. It will burn coal until 2036, but they may extend their deadline until 2038.

If you’re a Duke Energy Indiana customer, write to your utility here. You are welcome to copy and paste the draft text below or modify it.

I’m a Duke Energy customer, and I’m writing because I want to see your coal-fired power plants retired as soon as possible. Instead of replacing them with natural gas, I’d like to see Duke Energy Indiana invest in renewables like wind, solar, and storage.

Coal-fired power plants are expensive, inefficient, and harmful to Hoosiers’ health. In the last two years alone, our energy bills have increased by 16% to fund twelve more years of coal. And we’re not just paying with our wallets. In the meantime, coal ash is polluting our air, soil, and water with heavy metals that can cause cancer, prenatal development problems, and neurological issues.

Coal-fired power plants are relics of the past. As a ratepayer and a Hoosier, I want to stop paying for pollution. Please retire your coal plants now and invest in clean, cheap, and efficient renewable energy.

Write to Duke Energy

NIPSCO

NIPSCO operates two coal-fired power plants in Indiana, and they have extended their use of coal several times. According to NIPSCO’s own 2024 Integrated Resource Plan:

  1. The Michigan City Generating Station will burn coal until 2028, but since it’s been extended before, we worry they might extend it again.
  2. R.M. Schahfer Generating Station in Wheatfield, Indiana, was scheduled to close at the end of 2025. Orders from the Trump Administration have kept it in operation at a high cost.

If you’re a NIPSCO customer, write to your utility below and tell them to end the extensions and stop burning coal at Michigan City.

Indiana Michigan (I&M) Power

Indiana Michigan Power operates the Clifty Creek coal-fired power plant and owns half of the Rockport plant. Both are located in Spencer County . According to NIPSCO’s own 2024 Integrated Resource Plan:

  1. Clifty Creek will burn coal until 2040, though their website says they will retire it in 2028. In Sierra Club’s latest Dirty Truth report, it earns a C (48%) – a bump from its previous score (66%). Sierra Club cited shifting the entire cost of operating its coal plants to its Indiana customers. Previously, Michigan customers shared the cost burden.
  2. Rockport will burn coal until 2028.

If you’re an I&M Power customer, write to your utility below. You may keep the message or modify or it.