dbeard@dominionpost.com MORGANTOWN – The Senate Energy, Industry and Mining Committee approved on Monday a resurrected version of a bill to allow coal companies to take a severance tax credit for road improvements and purchases of production equipment. SB 448 would allow a company to ...
dbeard@dominionpost.com MORGANTOWN – A resurrected state Senate bill that would raise the property tax on windmills cleared the Senate Energy, Industry and Mining Committee on Monday, but not without bipartisan opposition. SB 439 brings back to life a bill sponsored last year byt ...
MORGANTOWN – Monongalia County's newest state senator – Republican Chris Rose – is also the new chair of the Senate Energy, Industry and Mining Committee and introduced three energy-related bills on the second day of the legislative session. One resurrects a 2024 bill to raise the ...
dbeard@dominionpost.com MORGANTOWN – Thirty-one condemnation suits filed by Hope Gas against western Monongalia County landowners along the planned route of its new Morgantown pipeline continue to work their way through Mon County Circuit Court. Hope is asking the court to grant entry ...
dbeard@domininopost.com MORGANTOWN – In mid-January, Hope Gas offered the Public Service Commission a partial solution to its proposal to abandon its Red Line and convert about 479 customers to propane or electricity. It announced an arrangement with Diversified Midstream for Diversified ...
MORGANTOWN – PJM Interconnection – the regional power grid operator – is predicting a “significant growth in electricity demand” over the next 20 years. PJM estimates the peak summer demand for its 13-state region (including Washington D.C.) will grow by about 70,000 megawatts: ...
