Mental Health Crisis Response And Mountain Valley Pipeline, Inside Appalachia

This week, people with mental health challenges or substance use disorder often end up in jail. But crisis response teams offer another way. Also, one year after the Mountain Valley Pipeline went into service, people who live directly in the pipeline’s path have received compensation. But not everyone. And, the Sacred Harp songbook gets an update for the first time since the early 1990s.

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Energy & Environment Curtis Tate, Jul. 01, 2025

Kentucky Power Cites Capacity Need In Bid To Keep Mitchell Plant

Kentucky Power filed an application with the Kentucky Public Service Commission Monday to retain the 50% share of Mitchell, a coal-burning plant it operates with Wheeling Power.

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Energy & Environment Curtis Tate, Feb. 21, 2025

Kentucky Power Wants To Keep Its Share Of Mitchell Coal Plant

Earlier this week, Kentucky Power went back to Kentucky regulators and asked them to reopen the case.

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Energy & Environment Curtis Tate, Jun. 17, 2024

Federal Data: Utilities Used Coal Plants Less In 2023, Even In W. Va.

Four of the five main power plants in the state produced less electricity in 2023 than in any year since 2001, according to U.S. Energy Information Administration data.

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Energy & Environment Curtis Tate, Jun. 14, 2023

Kentucky Power Customers Pay More Than Neighbors And West Virginia

Electricity from Kentucky Power is $25 higher than Wheeling Power’s West Virginia average monthly bill of $162.43. Electricity for both Wheeling Power and Kentucky Power is generated by the Mitchell Plant in Moundsville.

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Energy & Environment Curtis Tate, Apr. 17, 2023

AEP Calls Off Sale Of Kentucky Power To Algonquin Power

AEP had reached an agreement in late 2021 to sell Kentucky Power to Algonquin Power, based in Canada, for $2.85 billion.

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Energy & Environment Curtis Tate, Mar. 31, 2023

Future Of Mitchell Power Plant Becomes Campaign Issue, In Kentucky

In ads and mailers, Craft has been going after Cameron for something he recommended nearly two years ago: The state public service commission should let the power plant shut down.

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