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INDIANAPOLIS — Today, the Trump Administration and Department of Energy (DOE) announced yet another extension for the Culley and Schahfer coal-fired power plants since they were ordered to stay open at the end of 2025. This news comes just weeks after the Indiana Utility Regulatory Commission revealed that both of the Schahfer coal units ordered to stay open are broken.
NIPSCO, owner of the Schahfer plant, has to continue to update the plant to bring it back online, the high costs of which are passed onto Hoosiers and people across the MISO grid. CenterPoint, owner of the Culley coal plant, wrote a letter to the DOE asking them not to reissue an emergency order, stating that maintaining the coal plant “will require substantial investment to support an inefficient and increasingly unreliable asset.”
Earlier this year, Sierra Club and partners filed a challenge in the United States Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit to overturn Trump’s illegal “emergency” orders issued by DOE.
In response, Robyn Skuya-Boss, Hoosier Chapter Director, released the following statement:
