MORGANTOWN – FirstEnergy sisters Mon Power and Potomac Edison have a third rate-hike case in motion before the state Public Service Commission. This one is to fund their Vegetation Management Program. The companies are seeking an increase of $16,969,398 to take effect Jan. 1, 2024, and ...
MORGANTOWN – Hope Gas has asked the state Public Service Commission for its OK to build a new 30-mile pipeline from Wadestown in western Monongalia County eastward to the edge of Morgantown and then northwest to a site near Osage. Hope proposes the project to meet increased demand in the ...
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 ...
