INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. (WOWO): Two of Indiana's utility companies are going to start putting in new power lines so they can ship energy created by wind farms across the state. 

NIPSCO and Pioneer will build a 100-mile line from White County to LaGrange County, then a new 65-mile route from the Indianapolis area to Reynolds, and then on to the East Coast. Kerwin Olson, executive director of the Citizens Action Coalition, says even with this, Indiana hasn't been trying very hard to make clean energy a priority:

“We have utility companies who are continuing to invest billions of dollars in aging coal plants that really should be retired and replaced with clean energy, so Indiana isn't doing so well. We seem to be doing everything in our power to maintain our addiction to coal.”

Olsen says his group wants to make sure that these new transmission lines are actually going to be used to move the wind-farm energy, and not to ship out excess electricity from coal plants.