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Sen. Chris Rose, a Monongalia County Republican, will ask Senate President Randy Smith to recuse himself from Senate Bill 505. The Energy committee approved this bill last week, and Rose is one of its co-sponsors.
Continue Reading Take Me to More NewsWest Virginia ranked 38th for solar installation in 2024, an improvement over 50th in 2023 and 46th in 2022.
Continue Reading Take Me to More NewsFirst Energy President and CEO Brian Tierney said in the company’s fourth quarter earnings presentation Thursday that the new plants would cost $4 billion to $6 billion.
Continue Reading Take Me to More NewsAmerican Electric Power, FirstEnergy and Dominion Power told members of the legislature that they’d maintain their coal assets in West Virginia. In the future, though, they said they would not be building new coal plants.
Continue Reading Take Me to More NewsThe Pleasants Power Station has been making electricity from coal for 44 years. But the plant, which employs about 150 workers, is scheduled to shut down at the end of May.
Continue Reading Take Me to More NewsThe former First Energy plant was saved from closure in 2019 by the state legislature and Gov. Jim Justice, who signed a $12 million tax exemption specifically for the facility.
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