Item 8.01 Other Events.
In late November of 2008, an arrangement was reached to release Northern Indiana
Public Service Company ("NIPSCO"), a wholly-owned subsidiary of NiSource Inc.,
from its contractual commitment binding NIPSCO's Sugar Creek power plant to
provide capacity to PJM Interconnection's Reliability Pricing Model market.
Effective December 1, 2008, Sugar Creek was accepted as an internal designated
network resource within the Midwest Independent Transmission System Operator.