As anticipated, Northern Indiana Public Service Company (NIPSCO) filed a petition on 9/11/13 with the Indiana Utility Regulatory Commission (IURC) for another round of their proposed voluntary feed-in tariff (VFIT). The new case is Cause No. 44393. We are calling it the NIPSCO VFIT 2.0.

See NIPSCO FIT 2.0 Petition in Cause No 44393_filed 2013-09-11

Indiana Distributed Energy Alliance (IndianaDG) has retained J. David Agnew with LORCH NAVILLE WARD LLC AS legal counsel and filed a petition to intervene in 44393.

See 44393 - IndianaDG Petition to Intervene in NIPSCO FIT 2.0

The current NIPSCO VFIT 1.0 --as we are now calling it --is now scheduled to expire on 12/31/13 and is nearly full.

To see a status of the current NIPSCO VFIT 1.0 program visit:

http://www.nipsco.com/en/our-services/connecting-to-the-grid/feed-in-status.aspx 

Anyone interested in another round of NIPSCO's VFIT including:

• NIPSCO electric customers;
• renewable energy vendors and developers interested in proposed projects in the NIPSCO service territory including solar PV, wind and biomass; and
• supporters of renewable energy and distributed generation policy

should contact us about joining IndianaDG to take part in our intervention.

Those interested in this program may want to visit this NIPSCO service territory map:

http://www.nipsco.com/Libraries/Our_Services/feedin-nipsco-territory-map.sflb.ashx

NIPSCO has 457.000 electric service customers across northern Indiana.

Members participating in discussions and negotiations about this proceeding before the IURC will also be asked to sign a Confidentiality Agreement.

Download here: CONFIDENTIALITY AGREEMENT[1]_NIPSCO_44393

For more information contact:

Laura.Arnold@IndianaDG.net or call (317) 635-1701