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Please use this form to email your Indiana state legislators and the members of the House Utilities Committee to tell them to reject the anti-consumer legislation described below.

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House Bill 1007, as well as Senate Bills 423 and 424, are primarily being driven by the recent data center boom and Big Tech’s voracious appetite for energy.

With these bills, state legislators are using captive Indiana utility customers as economic development tools, forcing us to fund the costs of design, engineering, planning, and permitting for the small modular nuclear reactors (SMRs) they have chosen to satisfy Big Tech’s energy guzzling desires.

HB1007, SB423, and SB424 all:

• Force Indiana electric utility customers to foot the bill for the SMR design, engineering, planning, and permitting costs before the utility seeks approval to build the SMR, and even if they never seek approval and cancel the project.

HB1007 goes even further to:

• Give hundreds of millions of dollars in lost tax revenue for the State of Indiana in the form of tax credits to the manufacturers of SMRs in Indiana

• Reduce regulatory oversight of the monopoly utilities by fast tracking approval of new generation resources to serve Big Tech and their data centers, plus a tracker to charge customers for these resources before they are generating any electricity.

• Make it more difficult for Indiana utilities to retire coal-fired power plants.

It should be noted that there are a total of ZERO small modular nuclear reactors operating in the entire United States.

The one SMR that has gotten the furthest along was the NuScale SMR in Utah, which was proposed in 2015 and cancelled in late 2023 without ever beginning any construction.

• The cost for this project was estimated at $2.7 billion in 2015 when the project was proposed, and it was projected to be online by 2026.

• By 2023, the cost estimate had more than tripled to $9.3 billion and the projected operational date was pushed back to 2030.

• Power from these SMRs was projected to cost $58 per megawatt hour in 2021, and had ballooned by over 53% to a projected $89/MWh in 2023.

• In November 2023, the project was cancelled after the Utah Associated Municipal Power Systems (UAMPS) backed out, stating that not enough of the municipal electric utilities would agree to purchase electricity from the project because the cost had escalated well beyond what they were willing to pay for electricity.