Indiana utilities are in midst of identity crisis as customers take power into own hands

The changes came slowly, then seemingly all at once. Next door, your neighbor installed solar panels. You started seeing more and more electric vehicles. When you drove north on I-65, you hit a patch of farmland dotted with large windmills. And what about that big field of solar panels at the airport?You may not have thought much about it, but every time you flipped on the lights or plugged in an appliance, you were part of a revolution.Until recently, virtually all residents in Indiana, and many states across the country, had little say in where their electricity came from or how it was produced. Bills arrived in the mail — whether from one of the big, investor-owned utilities or a smaller municipal or rural cooperative — and customers paid them.But Indiana utilities no longer hold a monopoly on energy generation in the state.