NIPSCO (Northern Indiana Public Service) Rates and Bills

NIPSCO (Northern Indiana Public Service) reported 433,889 residential customers on bundled service in 2025, using 672 kWh a month on average at 22.05 cents per kWh. Bundled means the utility supplies the energy and delivers it, so the price covers both. Among the 34 Indiana utilities with at least 10,000 bundled residential customers, Northern Indiana Public Service ranks 34 from the lowest price.

Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration, Form EIA-861 (final 2025 data), sales to ultimate customers. Price is revenue divided by sales and includes fixed charges.

EIA lists the counties where Northern Indiana Public Service has distribution equipment. That covers 20 counties in Indiana. A county can be served by more than one utility, so confirm your address with the utility or your bill.

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For 2025, Northern Indiana Public Service reported an average of 178 minutes without power per customer and 0.90 interruptions per customer, with major event days left out. The typical interruption lasted about 198 minutes. For comparison, the median state averaged 127 minutes of outage per customer.

Northern Indiana Public Service had about 51 more minutes of outage per customer than the median state. The Indiana figure across its utilities was 123 minutes. One interruption lasting 198 minutes and 0.90 interruptions a year per customer add up to the 178 minute total.

Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration, Form EIA-861 (final 2025 data), reliability schedule, measured under IEEE 1366. Utilities define events slightly differently, so compare with care.

• Time-of-use pricing. Northern Indiana Public Service does not report a residential time-of-use program in its 2025 EIA filing. Ask the utility, because programs change. How time-of-use rates work.
• Rooftop solar and net metering. EIA shows 1,414 residential net-metered systems on the Northern Indiana Public Service grid in 2025, with 13.0 megawatts of capacity. How net metering works.

A private company owned by shareholders. A state commission reviews its costs and sets or approves its rates in formal rate cases. In Indiana, that review is done by the Indiana Utility Regulatory Commission.

Northern Indiana Public Service is an investor-owned utility based in Indiana.

Northern Indiana Public Service operates in the MISO power market. Power markets set wholesale costs, but your retail rate is set by the rules described above.

By residential customers, Northern Indiana Public Service ranks 4th of the 44 utilities that report homes in Indiana, with about 14.1% of the state's homes. Its price of 22.05 cents per kWh is 5.97 cents above the median of 4 other investor-owned utilities in Indiana (16.07 cents). Over a year, the typical Northern Indiana Public Service bill runs about $19 below the state average, with monthly use 266 kWh lower. Northern Indiana Public Service lists distribution equipment in 20 counties, so check your county and your bill before you assume it serves you. 1,414 of its residential customers use net metering, or 3.3 per 1,000 homes, against 4.2 for Indiana as a whole.

Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration, Form EIA-861 (final 2025 data). Peers are other utilities of the same type in Indiana with at least 1,000 residential customers and a reported price.

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