CITIZENS ACTION COALITION v. PUBLIC SERV. CO.

No. 2-582A142.

450 N.E.2d 98 (1983)

CITIZENS ACTION COALITION of Indiana, Inc., Appellant (Intervenor below), v. PUBLIC SERVICE COMPANY OF INDIANA, Northern Indiana Public Service Company, Indiana & Michigan Electric Company, Southern Indiana Gas & Electric Company, Indianapolis Power & Light Company, Richmond Power & Light, Indiana Retail Council, the Public, American Cyanamid Company, Jones & Laughlin Steel Corporation, National Steel Corporation, Midwest Steel Division, International Harvester Company, Inland Steel Company, Union Carbide Corporation, Eli Lilly and Company, General Motors Corporation, Bethlehem Steel Corporation, City of Fort Wayne, Indiana, U.S. Steel, Appellees (Respondents and Intervenors below).

Court of Appeals of Indiana, Fourth District.

Rehearing Denied July 21, 1983.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jay Lauer, Legal Services Program of Northern Ind., Inc., South Bend, for appellant.

Fred E. Schlegel, Michael J. Huston, Mary M. Stanley, Baker & Daniels, Jerry P. Belknap, John J. Metts, Barnes & Thornburg, Indianapolis, for appellees.


YOUNG, Presiding Judge.

Appellant Citizens Action Coalition, Inc. (CAC) appeals from an order of the Public Service Commission of Indiana declining to require Indiana electric utilities to offer "lifeline" rates to their customers. Lifeline rates would provide residential customers an amount of electricity deemed necessary to meet their "essential needs" at a price below the actual cost of providing the electric service. The Commission found that a "targeted" lifeline...

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