8-K

                       SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
                              Washington, DC 20549

                                    FORM 8-K
                                 CURRENT REPORT

                       Pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d) of
                       The Securities Exchange Act of 1934

         Date of Report (Date of earliest event reported) March 19, 2004


                               VECTREN CORPORATION
             (Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)


 Commission          Registrant, State of Incorporation,       I.R.S Employer
  File No.              Address, and Telephone Number        Identification No.

  1-15467                   Vectren Corporation                  35-2086905
                          (An Indiana Corporation)
                           20 N.W. Fourth Street,
                         Evansville, Indiana 47708
                               (812) 491-4000

  1-16739               Vectren Utility Holdings, Inc.           35-2104850
                          (An Indiana Corporation)
                           20 N.W. Fourth Street,
                         Evansville, Indiana 47708
                               (812) 491-4000

  1-3553          Southern Indiana Gas and Electric Company      35-0672570
                          (An Indiana Corporation)
                           20 N.W. Fourth Street,
                         Evansville, Indiana 47708
                               (812) 491-4000

  1-6494                  Indiana Gas Company, Inc.              35-0793669
                          (An Indiana Corporation)
                           20 N.W. Fourth Street,
                         Evansville, Indiana 47708
                               (812) 491-4000

            Former name or address, if changed since last report: N/A






Item 9.  Regulation FD Disclosure

Vectren Corporation (the Company), an energy holding and applied technology
company, announced the filing for a general gas rate increase by its wholly
owned subsidiary Indiana Gas Company, Inc. which does business as Vectren Energy
Delivery of Indiana - North. A copy of the press release is furnished as Exhibit
99-1 to this Current Report.

In connection with the "safe harbor" provisions of the Private Securities
Litigation Reform Act of 1995, the Company is hereby furnishing cautionary
statements identifying important factors that could cause actual results of the
Company and its subsidiaries, including Vectren Utility Holdings, Inc., Indiana
Gas Company, Inc. and Southern Indiana Gas and Electric Company, to differ
materially from those projected in forward-looking statements of the Company and
its subsidiaries made by, or on behalf of, the Company and its subsidiaries.
These cautionary statements are attached as Exhibit 99-2.





                                   SIGNATURES

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the
registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the
undersigned hereunto duly authorized.

                               VECTREN CORPORATION
                               VECTREN UTILITY HOLDINGS, INC.
                               SOUTHERN INDIANA GAS AND ELECTRIC COMPANY
                               INDIANA GAS COMPANY, INC.
March 19, 2004


                                     By:  /s/ M. Susan Hardwick
                                     ----------------------------------------
                                     M. Susan Hardwick
                                     Vice President and Controller







                                INDEX TO EXHIBITS

The following Exhibits are furnished as part of this Report to the extent
described in Item 9:



 Exhibit
 Number      Description

  99-1       Press Release - Vectren North seeks approval of new natural gas
             base rates

  99-2       Cautionary Statement for Purposes of the "Safe Harbor"
             Provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995

EX-99.1 PRESS RELEAS

                                                                       EX 99-1
                                                   News
                                                   Release


                                                   Vectren Corporation
                                                   P.O. Box 209
                                                   Evansville, IN  47702-0209




FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
March 19, 2004

Contact:  Media - Mike Roeder (812) 491-4143 or mroeder@vectren.com
Investor Relations - Steve Schein, 812-491-4209 or sschein@vectren.com

           Vectren North seeks approval of new natural gas base rates

Evansville, Ind. -- Vectren Energy Delivery of Indiana - North, formerly called
Indiana Gas Company, Inc., a subsidiary of Vectren Corporation (NYSE: VVC),
filed a petition today with the Indiana Utility Regulatory Commission (IURC) to
adjust its base rates and charges for its gas distribution business in a
49-county region covering central and southeastern Indiana. If the filing is
approved, Vectren North expects to increase its base rates by approximately $47
million to cover the ongoing cost of operating, maintaining and expanding the
approximately 12,000-mile distribution and storage system used to serve more
than 525,000 customers.

If approved, the typical Vectren Energy Delivery of Indiana - North (Vectren
North) residential customer that uses natural gas to heat his/her home would see
a bill increase of about 7 percent. This proposal will not impact Vectren's
customers in southwestern Indiana or west-central Ohio. Vectren North's request
will be reviewed by the IURC, and there will also be public hearings conducted
regarding the proposal.

Today's base rate filing marks the first time Vectren North has filed a request
for a base ("non-gas-costs") rate increase since 1991. Over the past 13 years,
Vectren North has efficiently managed its operations to avoid an increase for
its "non-gas costs." However, during that time frame investments made to serve
Vectren North customers have exceeded $270 million, which are not reflected in
its current base rates. Also, since 1991, the amounts paid for taxes, health
care, labor and other operating costs have increased.

The petition only addresses Vectren North's "non-gas" costs, which represent
between 25 and 30 cents of every dollar paid by customers for their gas service.
These "non-gas" costs are incurred to build, operate and maintain the pipes,
other equipment and systems that are used to deliver gas across Vectren North's
system to its customers. The remaining 70 to 75 cents of each dollar represents
the cost of the gas used by customers. That gas is purchased on the competitive
wholesale market by Vectren North on behalf of its customers, and its actions
are subject to regulatory scrutiny under the state's Gas Cost Adjustment (GCA)
procedures to ensure its purchasing actions are reasonable. Every three months,
the IURC reviews Vectren North's gas purchase costs to ensure that those costs
are reasonable. Under Indiana regulation, Vectren North is not allowed to make a
profit on the cost of gas.



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The filing also includes a normal temperature adjustment (NTA) mechanism to
reduce the impact on customer bills caused by the variations in weather. With
the NTA, historic average temperatures serve as the basis for computing
customers' bills, thereby smoothing out the effects of significant temperature
fluctuations.

"It has been about 13 years since we last sought to adjust our base rates. Given
this passage of time, we need an increase to recover the costs associated with
providing our customers with safe and reliable gas service. The primary driver
is the investment of more than a quarter of a billion dollars in infrastructure
upgrades over this time period," said Bill Doty, Vectren's executive vice
president of utility operations. "A strong utility infrastructure is a critical
component to Indiana's continued economic growth. Adjusting our base rates to
reflect this investment is important to our efforts to sustain and promote the
service reliability that is critical to our customers."

The merger in early 2000 of Indiana Energy, Inc. and SIGCORP, Inc. to create
Vectren, combined with the acquisition later that same year of significant
natural gas distribution assets in west-central Ohio, has contributed to the
ability to delay the need to seek a rate increase by creating the opportunity to
spread operating costs across the companies and by providing many efficiencies
that avoid duplication of costs.

Vectren North serves all or a portion of Adams, Allen, Bartholomew, Blackford,
Boone, Clark, Clay, Clinton, Daviess, Decatur, Delaware, Fayette, Floyd,
Fountain, Grant, Greene, Hamilton, Hancock, Hendricks, Henry, Huntington,
Jackson, Jay, Jefferson, Johnson, Lawrence, Madison, Marion, Martin, Miami,
Monroe, Montgomery, Morgan, Orange, Owen, Parke, Putnam, Randolph, Rush, Shelby,
Tippecanoe, Tipton, Vermillion, Vigo, Wabash, Warren, Wayne, Wells and White
counties.

About Vectren Corporation
Vectren Corporation is an energy and applied technology holding company
headquartered in Evansville, Indiana. Vectren's regulated energy delivery
subsidiaries provide gas and/or electricity to nearly one million customers in
adjoining service territories that cover nearly two-thirds of Indiana and west
central Ohio. Vectren's non-regulated subsidiaries and affiliates currently
offer energy-related products and services to customers throughout the midwest
and southeast. These include gas marketing and related services; coal production
and sales; utility infrastructure services; and broadband communication
services. To learn more about Vectren, visit www.vectren.com.

Safe Harbor for Forward Looking Statements

This document contains forward-looking statements, which are based on
management's beliefs and assumptions that derive from information currently
known by management. Vectren wishes to caution readers that actual results could
differ materially from those contained in this document. Additional detailed
information concerning a number of factors that could cause actual results to
differ materially from the information that is provided to you is readily
available in our report on Form 10-K filed with the Securities and Exchange
Commission on February 26, 2004.





Key Elements of Vectren North Rate Case, as Filed, Included as Supplemental
Information:


Overall Revenue Increase:                            $46.9 million
Percent Increase on Typical Residential Bill:        Approximately 7%*

Requested Return on Equity (ROE):                    12.25%
Weighted Cost of Debt:                               7.35%
Overall Rate of Return:                              9.21%
Capital Structure:                                   44% Debt
                                                     48% Equity
                                                     8% Cost Free/Other

Rate Base:                                           $709.6 million
Revenue Increase on Original Cost:                   $38.4 million
Revenue Increase on Fair Value:                      $8.5 million

Test Year Net Operating Income (NOI):                $61.9 million
Present Rates NOI:                                   $42.9 million

Revenue Increase from Last Case Filed in 1991 to the Current Case Attributed to:
Cost of Capital, Depreciation and
  Rate Base Additions                                $70.8 million
Income and Property taxes                            $6.4 million
Bad Debt Expense                                     $4.3 million
Pipeline safety costs                                $2.9 million
Other costs                                          $.5 million
Margin Growth from Customer Additions                $(38.0) million
                                                     ---------------
Total Revenue Increase                               $46.9 million

* Amount represents an estimate. A detailed cost of service study that
determines the requested increase by customer rate class will be filed with the
Indiana Utility Regulatory Commission in early April 2004.

EX-99.2 SAFE HARBOR

                                                                         EX 99-2

    Cautionary Statement for Purposes of the "Safe Harbor" provisions of the
               Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995.

A "safe harbor" for forward-looking statements is provided by the Private
Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 (Reform Act of 1995). The Reform Act of
1995 was adopted to encourage such forward-looking statements without the threat
of litigation, provided those statements are identified as forward-looking and
are accompanied by meaningful cautionary statements identifying important
factors that could cause the actual results to differ materially from those
projected in the statement. Forward-looking statements have been and will be
made in written documents and oral presentations of Vectren Corporation and its
subsidiaries. Such statements are based on management's beliefs, as well as
assumptions made by and information currently available to management. When used
in Vectren Corporation and its subsidiaries' documents or oral presentations,
the words "believe," "anticipate," "endeavor," "estimate," "expect,"
"objective," "projection," "forecast," "goal," and similar expressions are
intended to identify forward-looking statements. In addition to any assumptions
and other factors referred to specifically in connection with such
forward-looking statements, factors that could cause Vectren Corporation and its
subsidiaries' actual results to differ materially from those contemplated in any
forward-looking statements included, among others, the following:

o    Factors affecting utility operations such as unusual weather conditions;
     catastrophic weather-related damage; unusual maintenance or repairs;
     unanticipated changes to fossil fuel costs; unanticipated changes to gas
     supply costs, or availability due to higher demand, shortages,
     transportation problems or other developments; environmental or pipeline
     incidents; transmission or distribution incidents; unanticipated changes to
     electric energy supply costs, or availability due to demand, shortages,
     transmission problems or other developments; or electric transmission or
     gas pipeline system constraints.
o    Increased competition in the energy environment including effects of
     industry restructuring and unbundling.
o    Regulatory factors such as unanticipated changes in rate-setting policies
     or procedures, recovery of investments and costs made under traditional
     regulation, and the frequency and timing of rate increases.
o    Financial or regulatory accounting principles or policies imposed by the
     Financial Accounting Standards Board; the Securities and Exchange
     Commission; the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission; state public utility
     commissions; state entities which regulate electric and natural gas
     transmission and distribution, natural gas gathering and processing,
     electric power supply; and similar entities with regulatory oversight.
o    Economic conditions including the effects of an economic downturn,
     inflation rates, and monetary fluctuations.
o    Changing market conditions and a variety of other factors associated with
     physical energy and financial trading activities including, but not limited
     to, price, basis, credit, liquidity, volatility, capacity, interest rate,
     and warranty risks.
o    The performance of projects undertaken by the Company's nonregulated
     businesses and the success of efforts to invest in and develop new
     opportunities, including but not limited to, the realization of Section 29
     income tax credits and the Company's coal mining, gas marketing, and
     broadband strategies.
o    Direct or indirect effects on our business, financial condition or
     liquidity resulting from a change in our credit rating, changes in interest
     rates, and/or changes in market perceptions of the utility industry and
     other energy-related industries.
o    Employee workforce factors including changes in key executives, collective
     bargaining agreements with union employees, or work stoppages.
o    Legal and regulatory delays and other obstacles associated with mergers,
     acquisitions, and investments in joint ventures.
o    Costs and other effects of legal and administrative proceedings,
     settlements, investigations, claims, and other matters, including, but not
     limited to, those described in periodic filings made with Commission by
     Vectren Corporation and its subsidiaries, Vectren Utility Holdings, Inc.,
     Indiana Gas Company, Inc., and Southern Indiana Gas and Electric Company.
o    Changes in federal, state or local legislature requirements, such as
     changes in tax laws or rates, environmental laws and regulations.

Vectren Corporation and its subsidiaries undertake no obligation to publicly
update or revise any forward-looking statements, whether as a result of changes
in actual results, changes in assumptions, other factors affecting such
statements.