Industry ready for another productive year

Work continues on a new stack, at NIPSCO's R.M. Schahfer generating station in Wheatfield in this December 2011 photo. Construction projects at the plant were expected to generate more than 900 trade jobs. NIPSCO is investing about $500 million in environmental improvements at the plant.

Major construction projects are major bright spots

Work continues on a new stack, at left, Dec. 21 at NIPSCO's Schahfer Generating Station in Wheatfield.

NIPSCO Schafer power generating station

Work continues on a new stack, left, earlier this month at NIPSCO's R.M. Schahfer Generating Station in Wheatfield. NIPSCO and the Center of Workforce Innovations coordinated heat rate awareness training for 26 of the utility's employees last month at its R.M. Schahfer Generating Station in …

State officials, industry bracing for new greenhouse gas ruling

NIPSCO's R.M. Schahfer Generating Station in Wheatfield is a coal-fired power plant. The EPA is set to release new rules for greenhouse gas emissions from new power plants. Those rules are bringing increased attention to existing coal-fired power plants.

NIPSCO's R.M. Schahfer Generating Station in Wheatfield

Ironworkers prepare the base of a slurry tower that will be part of a new process to clean coal emissions at NIPSCO's R.M. Schahfer Generating Station in Wheatfield.

NIPSCO's R.M. Schahfer Generating Station in Wheatfield

These fiberglass flue liners will be installed in one of the 499-foot stacks being built at NIPSCO's R.M. Schahfer Generating Station in Wheatfield.

NIPSCO's R.M. Schahfer Generating Station in Wheatfield

A nearly 500-foot new fiberglass-lined stack sprouts between existing ones at NIPSCO's R.M. Schahfer Generating Station in Wheatfield.

NIPSCO's R.M. Schahfer Generating Station in Wheatfield

Work continues on a new stack, left, at NIPSCO's R.M. Schahfer generating station in Wheatfield. Construction projects at the plant are expected to eventually support more than 900 trade jobs as NIPSCO builds two 499-foot-tall stacks that will be lined with fiberglass to help reduce emission…