Stop CenterPoint's Excessive Rate Increases - Now
The Issue
CenterPoint Petition
Summary: High CenterPoint rates are causing critical financial crises among SW Indiana families. The IURC has been approving nonstop increases in base rates, fees, and trackers in gas and electric. Customer bills have nearly doubled in 3 years, much larger than 3.8% of the national cost of living. Sign this petition to show your support in leveraging infrastructure costs and reducing utility bills. Share this petition with as many family and friends as possible. Help increase pressure and bring about real change. Contact your local and state representatives to urge them to take action and advocate for stronger consumer protections.
Suggested Legislative Action:
- Remove loopholes in laws, bills, and Executive Orders that allow utility companies to exploit their customers and replace them with safeguards for the citizens of Indiana.
- Require utility companies to display responsible business practices.
- Stop approving widespread recovery of all Centerpoint business expenses.
- Enforce IC 8- to require 15 months between rate increases. Do not allow more than a 3.8% increase total of all Base Rate increases, Tracker increases or any other increases, combined in its entirety, in that given 15 month's time period. One request every 15 months. Close this loophole.
- Business revenue, grants, or state and federal funding should finance modernization, expansions, and improvements, like transportation is.
- Enact legislative bills to allocate or reallocate state funds or grants to cover economic growth, costs of utility infrastructures, according to what the STATE decides is necessary in accordance with current budget guidelines. Project prioritization should be implemented with emphasis on customer needs with prevention of power outages being the top priority.
- Enforce transparency of utility improvement requests through clear communication channels and according to Indiana law. Any request for increase in rates should be put on the “Home Energy Report” that is sent out monthly.
- Withhold future approvals of price increases to fund projects without taxpayer support. And all projects must have at least 3 builder bids.
- Appropriate a fair 90% credit for excess generated energy created by residential solar panels. This move would increase green energy production and reduce the utility’s need for additional power generation.
- Continue any current state tax credits for installation of solar power or energy saving materials.
The consumer should never have to cover CenterPoints bad decisions. Auction off abandoned nuclear power plants, or any structures paid for by the community, and direct the proceeds to the customer.
- Authorize a rate decrease to reverse recent increases down to no more than the 3.8% for all increases combined in the last 15 months. As we were promised.
- Limit profit margins to a modest amount of 9% per Energy and Policy Institute. And require utility companies to maintain tight budgets, lower business expenses and salaries of their upper management including the CEO to no more than the other CEO’s in utilities companies, including all bonuses and stock allowances in that amount.
- Legislative action to forbid non-disclosure agreements by public utilities. Consumers should know why an increase is needed.
Issues
- Utility bills have nearly doubled in the last 3 years because of added fees and trackers.
- Customers with past due accounts in 2026 are 3 times higher than in 2024
- Families have sacrificed food, medications, and medical care to pay their utility bills
- Health issues have been impacted to the point of hospitalization, permanent health decline and even deaths due to extreme thermostat settings (too cold in winter, too hot in summer)
- Consumers have spent thousands in modernizing windows, replacing appliances with energy efficient models, adding insulation, smart meters, and other recommended “energy saving avenues” with NO resulting decrease in utility bills
- Energy efficiency programs, low income relief, and levelized billing do not address the unjust exorbitant utility rates. Small businesses are strained, some have failed, and families are suffering.
- Social media conversations include Indiana citizens moving to nearby states to avoid high utility rates.
Suggested Solutions
- Limit all rate & fee increases for utility services (including base rate fees and trackers combined) to the national cost of living increases.
- Utility infrastructure should be paid for by the utility company and NOT the customers. Pipes, roads, wiring, and other improvements should be paid for by the company’s tax incentives that they receive AND the company’s enormous profits that they so obviously generate.
- Investigate Smart meter data, functionality by a 3rd party, also include accuracy to ensure proper recording of customer usage and accurate billing against errors, commonly caused by power surges, nearby electronic interference, setup and programming factors, or backfeed from solar systems and other equipment. State monitoring of this data should be required and strictly enforced.
Close loopholes and change the laws/EO/bills that allow CenterPoint to continue to get increases several times a year on Base Rates and Trackers that don’t reflect a real need for repair or upkeep but contribute to millions of financial gain for a company that already makes million of profit each year for stockholders. They get rich off of our sacrifices just to stay alive.
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The Issue
CenterPoint Petition
Summary: High CenterPoint rates are causing critical financial crises among SW Indiana families. The IURC has been approving nonstop increases in base rates, fees, and trackers in gas and electric. Customer bills have nearly doubled in 3 years, much larger than 3.8% of the national cost of living. Sign this petition to show your support in leveraging infrastructure costs and reducing utility bills. Share this petition with as many family and friends as possible. Help increase pressure and bring about real change. Contact your local and state representatives to urge them to take action and advocate for stronger consumer protections.
Suggested Legislative Action:
- Remove loopholes in laws, bills, and Executive Orders that allow utility companies to exploit their customers and replace them with safeguards for the citizens of Indiana.
- Require utility companies to display responsible business practices.
- Stop approving widespread recovery of all Centerpoint business expenses.
- Enforce IC 8- to require 15 months between rate increases. Do not allow more than a 3.8% increase total of all Base Rate increases, Tracker increases or any other increases, combined in its entirety, in that given 15 month's time period. One request every 15 months. Close this loophole.
- Business revenue, grants, or state and federal funding should finance modernization, expansions, and improvements, like transportation is.
- Enact legislative bills to allocate or reallocate state funds or grants to cover economic growth, costs of utility infrastructures, according to what the STATE decides is necessary in accordance with current budget guidelines. Project prioritization should be implemented with emphasis on customer needs with prevention of power outages being the top priority.
- Enforce transparency of utility improvement requests through clear communication channels and according to Indiana law. Any request for increase in rates should be put on the “Home Energy Report” that is sent out monthly.
- Withhold future approvals of price increases to fund projects without taxpayer support. And all projects must have at least 3 builder bids.
- Appropriate a fair 90% credit for excess generated energy created by residential solar panels. This move would increase green energy production and reduce the utility’s need for additional power generation.
- Continue any current state tax credits for installation of solar power or energy saving materials.
The consumer should never have to cover CenterPoints bad decisions. Auction off abandoned nuclear power plants, or any structures paid for by the community, and direct the proceeds to the customer.
- Authorize a rate decrease to reverse recent increases down to no more than the 3.8% for all increases combined in the last 15 months. As we were promised.
- Limit profit margins to a modest amount of 9% per Energy and Policy Institute. And require utility companies to maintain tight budgets, lower business expenses and salaries of their upper management including the CEO to no more than the other CEO’s in utilities companies, including all bonuses and stock allowances in that amount.
- Legislative action to forbid non-disclosure agreements by public utilities. Consumers should know why an increase is needed.
Issues
- Utility bills have nearly doubled in the last 3 years because of added fees and trackers.
- Customers with past due accounts in 2026 are 3 times higher than in 2024
- Families have sacrificed food, medications, and medical care to pay their utility bills
- Health issues have been impacted to the point of hospitalization, permanent health decline and even deaths due to extreme thermostat settings (too cold in winter, too hot in summer)
- Consumers have spent thousands in modernizing windows, replacing appliances with energy efficient models, adding insulation, smart meters, and other recommended “energy saving avenues” with NO resulting decrease in utility bills
- Energy efficiency programs, low income relief, and levelized billing do not address the unjust exorbitant utility rates. Small businesses are strained, some have failed, and families are suffering.
- Social media conversations include Indiana citizens moving to nearby states to avoid high utility rates.
Suggested Solutions
- Limit all rate & fee increases for utility services (including base rate fees and trackers combined) to the national cost of living increases.
- Utility infrastructure should be paid for by the utility company and NOT the customers. Pipes, roads, wiring, and other improvements should be paid for by the company’s tax incentives that they receive AND the company’s enormous profits that they so obviously generate.
- Investigate Smart meter data, functionality by a 3rd party, also include accuracy to ensure proper recording of customer usage and accurate billing against errors, commonly caused by power surges, nearby electronic interference, setup and programming factors, or backfeed from solar systems and other equipment. State monitoring of this data should be required and strictly enforced.
Close loopholes and change the laws/EO/bills that allow CenterPoint to continue to get increases several times a year on Base Rates and Trackers that don’t reflect a real need for repair or upkeep but contribute to millions of financial gain for a company that already makes million of profit each year for stockholders. They get rich off of our sacrifices just to stay alive.
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Petition created on September 12, 2026