Lowering Utility Costs

For too long, Indiana families have been told that rising electric and gas bills are just the cost of doing business. Meanwhile, record profits flow to monopoly utilities, CEOs collect bonuses, and state regulators rubber-stamp rate increases with barely a challenge. Every month, seniors, renters, and working parents in Kokomo and across Indiana are forced to choose between paying the utility bill or filling a prescription. That’s not just unfair; it’s immoral.

We need a utility system that works for everyday Hoosiers, not corporations.

Abolish the Indiana Utility Regulatory Commission (IURC)

Indiana’s broken utility model starts with the IURC. It was designed to protect the public, but instead has become a shield for monopoly energy companies. Year after year, the IURC approves increases that push families to the edge, while utilities face no real accountability for reliability, transparency, or affordability.

It’s time for structural reform.

I will introduce legislation to abolish the IURC and replace it with a democratically accountable system, where:

- Rate hikes are approved by voters, not politically appointed insiders.

- Utility companies must justify actual costs, not rely on “projected profit losses.”

- Hoosiers have guaranteed representation, including renters, seniors, and small business owners.

- Consumers, not utilities, get the benefit of efficiency and modernization.

When a state agency no longer serves the public, it must go. Hoosiers deserve a regulator that works for people, not the wealthy few.

Clean Energy That Respects Hoosier Communities

Indiana can lead the country in affordable, reliable clean energy, but not by paving over farmland or hollowing out rural communities.

Our clean energy transition must be:

- Smart

- Cost-effective

- Community-centered

That means:

- Prioritizing solar on rooftops, warehouses, parking lots, schools, factories, and commercial centers

- Encouraging distributed power generation so families and local businesses can share in the savings

- Investing in brownfield, industrial, and abandoned land solar projects, not good farmland

- Supporting agrivoltaics where appropriate; solar panels working with crops, not replacing them

Clean energy should lift up rural Indiana, not consume it.

Protect Our Farmland — Support Our Future

We will not trade Indiana’s agricultural heritage for corporate profit or greenwashing.
Our plan protects what matters:

- Family farms stay farmland.

- Indiana’s topsoil stays productive.

- Solar companies don’t dictate land use to small towns.

We can build the future of energy on spaces we’ve already paved, not the fields that feed us.

Lower Bills. Stronger Communities. A Better Indiana.

When we break up monopoly control, invest in practical clean energy, and empower local decision-making, we lower costs for everyone.

Energy becomes a public benefit, not a private cash cow. And we honor the Hoosier values we were raised with: fairness, responsibility, and taking care of our neighbors.

This is how we build A Better Indiana — one that works for the people who call it home.