Wednesday · June 17, 2026

IURC Order in Cause 46322 Approves NIPSCO-Amazon Special Contract and NIPSCO-GenCo PPA on a Partial Settlement; Pricing Terms Held Confidential

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Opening

The Indiana Utility Regulatory Commission approved the NIPSCO special contract with Amazon and the NIPSCO-GenCo power purchase agreement in an order approved June 17, 2026 (order date). The petition was filed November 7, 2025 (filing date). A partial settlement among Joint Petitioners, the OUCC and the NIPSCO Industrial Group was adopted; Citizens Action Coalition opposed it. Pricing and other negotiated commercial terms stay confidential.

What the order records

  • Dates by kind: petition filed November 7, 2025; docket entry of November 18, 2025 giving preliminary confidential treatment; CAC opposition testimony filed March 18, 2026; evidentiary hearing April 7, 2026; order approved June 17, 2026. The GenCo jurisdiction order, approved September 24, 2025, was issued in Cause No. 46183, a separate proceeding.
  • Amazon’s load ramps to up to 2,400 MW; GenCo resources are described as 3,000 MW, with 400 MW of BESS. The order text gives no gas/storage split. Utility Dive, not the order, describes two 1.3-GW gas-fired power plants.
  • The Commission’s standard was incremental cost plus some contribution to fixed costs, with $1.1 billion in contributions anticipated.
  • The Commission relied on terms it holds confidential in rejecting CAC’s cost-shift concerns.
  • The order says the settlement is not precedent and calls the GenCo structure one possible solution. The vote line records Zay, Deig and Ziegner concurring, Veleta concurring with opinion, and Swinger not participating.

Test of the novelty framing

A statement that no other Indiana utility had proposed a similar arrangement appears in the earlier cause, attributed to a CAC witness. It is an intervenor’s testimony as summarized by the Commission, not a Commission finding.

Sources & Citations

[1] Order of the Commission, Cause No. 46322 (approved June 17, 2026) — Indiana Utility Regulatory Commission · Jun 17, 2026 Tier 1
[2] Order of the Commission, Cause No. 46183 (approved September 24, 2025) — Indiana Utility Regulatory Commission · Sep 24, 2025 Tier 1
[3] NIPSCO to supply 3 GW to Amazon data centers in northern Indiana — Utility Dive · Nov 25, 2025 Tier 2
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Cite this entry
The Cascade Ledger. “IURC Order in Cause 46322 Approves NIPSCO-Amazon Special Contract and NIPSCO-GenCo PPA on a Partial Settlement; Pricing Terms Held Confidential.” The Capture Cascade Timeline, June 17, 2026. https://capturecascade.org/event/2026-06-17--iurc-order-cause-46322-approves-nipsco-genco-amazon-special-contract-ppa-confidential-terms/