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Kentucky’s attorney general supports Kentucky Power’s application to keep its half of a power plant in West Virginia.
Attorney General Russell Coleman backs Kentucky Power’s effort to retain ownership of half the Mitchell Plant beyond 2028, according to a filing with the Kentucky Public Service Commission.
That’s a reversal from his predecessor, Daniel Cameron, who in 2021 urged the Kentucky PSC to let Mitchell shut down.
Mitchell, near Moundsville, West Virginia, is owned by Kentucky Power and Wheeling Power.
West Virginia’s PSC approved the environmental compliance work necessary to keep Mitchell operating past 2028. Kentucky’s PSC did not.
In June, Kentucky Power went back to the Kentucky PSC seeking approval for the plan.
If approved, the average residential electricity customer would pay $3.68 more each month. The average bill would rise to $185.42, the highest in the region.
Kentucky Power also recently sought the approval of the Kentucky PSC to raise rates by 15%.
Kentucky Power has 162,000 customers in 20 eastern Kentucky counties.
Cameron, who lost a bid for Kentucky governor in 2023, is running in the Republican primary next year for the U.S. Senate in Kentucky.
His stance on Mitchell became a campaign issue during his run for governor. Rival Kelly Craft, the former U.S. ambassador to Canada, attacked Cameron for urging the plant’s retirement.
Craft and her husband, Joe Craft, own Alliance Resource Partners, a coal company that supplies the Mitchell Plant.
Craft spent nearly $11 million on the primary but still lost to Cameron. Cameron then lost to Gov. Andy Beshear, a Democrat.
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This week, in the 1920s, Oscar Micheaux was an entrepreneur filmmaker in western Virginia. He became a world-renowned director and producer. Also, Kentucky’s poet laureate lives down the road from what has been called the country’s most lethal cryptid. Attempts to spot it have led to deaths. And, we talk soul food with Xavier Oglesby, who’s passing on generations of kitchen wisdom to his niece.
Continue Reading Take Me to More NewsOn this episode of The Legislature Today, bills must be out of their respective committees by Sunday to be able to meet crossover day next Wednesday, and lawmakers are still working their way through next fiscal year’s budget. Also, we speak with Emmett Pepper, the policy director for Energy Efficient West Virginia, to learn about the Ratepayers Bill of Rights.
Continue Reading Take Me to More NewsKentucky Power customers will pay $3 more each month for a new cooling tower at the Mitchell plant than West Virginia customers will pay.
Continue Reading Take Me to More NewsA West Virginia cabinetmaker describes his journey to becoming an accomplished poet. Also, state lawmakers have taken an important step to funding the state’s EMS. And, the Trump administration announced it would roll back a rule on power plant emissions of mercury.
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