MORGANTOWN – State Attorney General Patrick Morrisey is leading another multi-state effort against what it considers another Biden Administration end run on Congress to hasten its green […]
Energy
Parties in Mon Power rate hike proposal case trade critiques of each others’ ideas
MORGANTOWN – The state Public Service Commission has received a new round of testimony regarding Mon Power and Potomac Edison’s request to raise customer power rates. It […]
State PSC considers Mon Power/Potomac Edison rate hike request; residential bill would rise 9.6%
MORGANTOWN – The state Public Service Commission is mulling a rate-hike request from Mon Power and Potomac Edison – FirstEnergy sister companies serving most of northern West […]
A look at federally funded gas well plugging, and a visit to a Diversified Energy plugging site
MORGANTOWN – West Virginia has 15,655 total abandoned wells – about 6,300 considered orphaned. That doesn’t include wells at or near the end of the useful lives […]
AAA: Thanksgiving will see more travelers than 2021, but highest holiday gas prices on record
MORGANTOWN – With the pandemic on the wane, more people will be traveling for the Thanksgiving holiday than in 2021, according to AAA. But they’ll be paying […]
Deskins to legislators: Fluctuating natural gas prices affect budget surpluses, prices expected to fall
MORGANTOWN – One of the factors that helped sink Amendment 2, with its associated plan to reimburse counties for lost property taxes from state budget surpluses, is […]
Mon Power recruiting customers for solar power credit program — aimed at building 5 solar plants
MORGANTOWN – Mon Power is actively recruiting customers for its solar renewable energy credits (SREC) program announced in May. An email recently sent to customers says, “Buying […]
Evolving Energy Conference panelists outline government’s role in energy transition
MORGANTOWN – One message everyone at WVU’s Evolving Energy Conference agreed on Thursday morning was that the energy transition is a tag team effort. Industry makes the […]
WVU Evolving Energy Conference looks at a transition that involves fossil energy in the move to carbon-free future
MORGANTOWN — “Beyond Coal” and “Beyond Gas” have been catchphrases signifying the generally adversarial nature of the clean energy transition in West Virginia. But “Beyond Despair” would […]
Northeast Natural Energy donates $10,000 to Friends of Deckers Creek
MORGANTOWN — Northeast Natural Energy has donated $10,000 to Friends of Deckers Creek. FODC will use the funds to purchase stream water quality monitoring equipment that will […]
