Creation Care
We just got through our prolonged heat wave, so we hope your plants are thriving with the extra water you provided. Hoosiers will be using more electricity to stay cool in this more frequent heat waves, so remember to conserve electricity in some simple ways. Use Energy Star LED lightbulbs: turn off lights when you leave the room or put them on timers or motion detectors to save electricity. Put your computer and printer on a power strip and turn off the power to them at night. Electricity is drawn by your devices even when the device is turned off.
AES is in the news over requests for price increases for the cost of buying more expensive fossil fuels. From the Indy Star:
“Customers can submit comments to the Indiana Office of Utility Consumer Counselor (OUCC) here: bit.ly/3xEGnDm. Cause No. 38703 FAC‐136.
In addition, other interested parties may intervene, then the IURC will hold an evidentiary hearing and evaluate evidence submitted in relation to the statute's requirements, according to Stephanie Hodgin, spokesperson for IURC.”
Here is a link to information by Citizen’s Action Coalition. High fossil gas prices increase AES rates.
With climate change causing increasing weather instability and higher average temperatures, consider signing the petition to AES Indiana’s CEO, Kristina Lund, to move more quickly to cleaner energy sources. They currently plan to delay closing their coal fired Petersburg plant until 2042. Our earth requires that they move more quickly to 2030. There are petitions in Fellowship Hall.