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PSC receives words of support for proposed Maidsville Energy Center

dbeard@dominionpost.com MORGANTOWN – Letters and testimony supporting the Mon Power/Potomac Edison plan to build a combined cycle gas plant at their Fort Martin site were received by the Public Service Commission this week. West Virginia Chamber of Commerce President Steven Roberts ...

Public hearing set for Mon County energy projects

DPNews@DominionPost.com CHARLESTON – The Public Service Commission of West Virginia has scheduled a virtual and in-person public comment hearing for July into construction of a $2.48 billion gas-electric generation plant in Monongalia County and three solar energy projects. The ...

Fourth MARL hearing draws 100 in Kingwood

KINGWOOD - Approximately 100 people showed up at the Kingwood Civic Center Thursday evening for the fourth West Virginia Public Service Commission hearing concerning the MARL project. Four individuals asked the PSC to approve the project. NextEra Energy Transmission’s proposed MARL ...

City, county, state: MARL opposition cuts across political lines

MORGANTOWN – “Hold on to this photo,” Monongalia County Commission President Tom Bloom joked Wednesday evening outside the Mon County Center. “It may never happen again.” Regardless of what comes of the MidAtlantic Resiliency Link power transmission project in West Virginia, ...

An estimated 250 people turn out for PSC public hearing on MARL

MORGANTOWN – There was a lot said about the MidAtlantic Resiliency Link power transmission project Wednesday evening. A lot. An estimated 250 people turned up at the Mon County Center to both speak and listen as the West Virginia Public Service Commission conducted its third public ...

A look at FirstEnergy’s planned gas-fired plant and Fort Martin

dbeard@dominionpost.com MORGANTOWN – The Dominion Post visited FirstEnergy's Fort Martin site recently to talk about its proposed new 1,200 megawatt combined cycle gas turbine plant and tour its coal-fired plant. This lot will be the site of the Maidsville Energy Center, pending PSC ...