EXHIBIT 24



                              INDIANA ENERGY, INC.
                            LIMITED POWER OF ATTORNEY
                    (To Sign and File Registration Statement)

         The undersigned  director  and/or officer of INDIANA  ENERGY,  INC., an
Indiana  corporation (the "Company"),  which intends to file with the Securities
and  Exchange  Commission,   Washington,  D.C.,  under  the  provisions  of  the
Securities Act of 1933, as amended,  a Registration  Statement or Statements for
the  registration  of Common Stock of the Company in connection with the Indiana
Energy,  Inc.  Retirement  Savings  Plan,  does hereby  appoint  each of Niel C.
Ellerbrook and Carl L. Chapman as such person's true and lawful attorney-in-fact
and agent, with full power of substitution and  resubstitution,  for such person
and in such person's name,  place and stead, in any and all capacities,  to sign
said  Registration  Statement or Statements and any and all amendments  thereto,
and to file  the  same,  with all  exhibits  thereto,  and  other  documents  in
connection therewith,  with the Securities and Exchange Commission granting unto
said  attorney-in-fact and agent full power and authority to do and perform each
and every act and thing  requisite  and  necessary  to be done,  as fully to all
intents  and  purposes  as such  person  might  or could  do in  person,  hereby
ratifying  and  confirming  all  that  said  attorney-in-fact  and  agent,  or a
substitute or substitutes, may lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue hereof.

         IN WITNESS WHEREOF,  the undersigned has executed this Limited Power of
Attorney this 30th day of September, 1999.


/s/ Paul T. Baker                                    /s/ J. Timothy McGinley
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Paul T. Baker                                        J. Timothy McGinley


/s/ Niel C. Ellerbrook                               /s/ Richard P. Rechter
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Niel C. Ellerbrook                                   Richard P. Rechter


/s/ Lawrence A. Ferger                               /s/ James C. Shook
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Lawrence A. Ferger                                   James C. Shook


/s/ Anton H. George                                  /s/ Jean L. Wojtowicz
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Anton H. George                                      Jean L. Wojtowicz


/s/ Don E. Marsh                                     /s/ John E. Worthen
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Don E. Marsh                                         John E. Worthen


/s/ William G. Mays
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William G. Mays






STATE OF INDIANA  )
                  )  SS:
COUNTY OF MARION  )


         Before me, a notary public, in and for said County and State personally
appeared Paul T. Baker, Niel C. Ellerbrook, Lawrence A. Ferger, Anton H. George,
Don E. Marsh, William G. Mays, J. Timothy McGinley, Richard P. Rechter, James C.
Shook, Jean L. Wojtowicz,  John E. Worthen, who executed the above and foregoing
Limited Power of Attorney on September 30, 1999.


         Witness my hand and Notarial Seal this 30th day of September, 1999.


                                            /s/ Bernadette Londini
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                                                                   Notary Public
My Commission Expires:                      Bernadette Londini
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                                                          (printed)

October 10, 2007                            Residing in Hendricks County
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