Savage Services made its last fuel delivery Wednesday to the Morgantown Energy Associates plant. For years, the company delivered fuel and carried away ash from the Beechurst Avenue facility.
Earlier this year, the state Public Service Commission approved Mon Power’s proposal to stop buying electricity from MEA — with conditions.
The paper previously reported that the chief condition is a concession to LP Mineral, which supplies the waste coal from the defunct Humphrey Mine in Maidsville to power MEA’s generators.
LP Mineral’s Manager James Laurita had told the PSC that terminating the contract seven years early would lead to lost revenue for LP and lost jobs at LP, MEA and various suppliers that service the MEA plant.
So the PSC required MEA to give Mon Power and LP six months’ notice of the date it will stop buying the coal and stop using its coal-fired boilers.
MEA sent out that notice to both companies on Christmas Eve, setting the date at June 24.
