Indiana's economy could take a major hit under the "One Big Beautiful Bill Act," now advancing in Congress. Michael Hicks, director of the Center for Business and Economic Research at Ball State University, said the legislation would reverse nearly two decades of energy expansion across the state, stalling renewable growth and driving up utility bills in homes and factories. "(It would) have a fairly large shock to the expansion of wind and solar -- which is pretty inexpensive to deploy and pretty rapid to deploy -- and then put the brakes on expansion of nuclear," Hicks outlined. "