MORGANTOWN – FirstEnergy sisters Mon Power and Potomac Edison are seeking a new rate hike of $167.5 million to cover their costs of producing electricity. But competitor and Mon Power customer Longview Power is asking the state Public Service Commission to whack almost all of that and ...
MORGANTOWN – Public opposition continues to a proposal by Mon Power and Potomac Edison to change the way they credit home solar power customers who contract for net metering. Meanwhile, the companies have voiced objection to a proposal by a group of energy and consumer advocacy groups to ...
Parthian Battery Solutions has been awarded a U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) grant for $274,951 to conduct research and development on the most effective technologies to reuse retired electric vehicle batteries in second-life applications. Over the past decade, lithium-ion batteries have seen a significant surge in demand due to the popularity of emerging technologies like electric vehicles and renewable energy. With conservative projections of lithium-ion battery deployments increasing nearly 3,000 times their current levels by 2050, ...
Work has started on a new O’Reilly auto parts store coming to Morgantown, on the site of the Star City Shoney’s restaurant. It was announced in June that WVU was selling the land to Springfield, Mo.-based O’Reilly Auto Enterprises. A legal ad published in The Dominion Post noted ...
NextGen Federal Systems, LLC (NextGen) has once again been named one of Inc. 5000’s fastest-growing private companies in America for the eighth consecutive year. The ranking provides a data-driven look at the most successful companies within the economy’s independent, entrepreneurial businesses. At number 4,517, NextGen is one of only four companies in West Virginia to make the list for 2023. Noting the nation’s rapid revenue growth, Inc. magazine stated, “The founders of these startups are delivering solutions to our nation’s biggest problems — and growing their ...
NEWBURG — Nichole Larew has been grooming dogs for 30 years. She said she retired in 2008 but it didn’t work out. Now, she owns The Love Tub Dog Grooming Salon, 402 Church St. in Newburg. “I was grooming a few clients’ dogs in my home,” she said, “But when I went out people started asking me about my grooming so I reopened.” Larew said there is a “big shortage” of groomers, and a lot of people don’t realize becoming a groomer is an opportunity. She said she wants to find out about teaching a vocational technical class in grooming at the high school. Larew ...
