Richmond Power and Light’s customers will save a little money on electricity from July through September.
The RP&L board, which is comprised of Richmond Common Council members, passed the third-quarter energy cost adjustments during its June 1 meeting. The ECAs are adjusted quarterly based on rates RP&L pays for power, and the ECAs will decrease for the first time this year.
The average drop is $0.000752 per kilowatt hour, with the residential ECA falling $0.000525 per kilowatt hour. The new residential ECA will be $0.013826 per kilowatt hour.
Bucket truck bids
Tony Foster, RP&L’s general manager, opened two bids for a 48-foot bucket truck that the line department’s substation division will use.
RP&L offered a 2015 bucket truck in trade.
Altec Industries of Indianapolis bid $249,717 and offered $7,500 for the trade for a $242,217 total. Utility Truck Equipment of Circleville, Ohio, bid $233,300 and offered $12,500 for the trade for a $220,800 bid.
The board voted for Foster to take the bids under advisement and return with a recommendation.
Water testing agreement
The board unanimously authorized Foster to sign an amendment to the utility’s 2014 Capacity Purchase Agreement with the Indiana Municipal Power Agency to operate the Whitewater Valley Station.
RP&L must treat groundwater and stormwater before it enters Richmond Sanitary District sewers. The amendment is necessary because of RP&L’s upcoming coal combustion residual remediation project’s permitting process.
Testing will occur on water from the CCR mitigation and from the generating station. If a violation occurs, sampling data will determine which entity is at fault.
A version of this article appeared in the June 10 2026 print edition of the Western Wayne News.