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Updated Jun 1, 2026Utility Landscape
Appalachian Power Company (AEP)
IOUSouthern and central West Virginia, including Charleston, Huntington, and surrounding counties
AEP's West Virginia subsidiary has pursued successive rate cases to recover costs associated with generation fleet transitions and transmission investments; the PSC has scrutinized coal plant retirement timelines and stranded cost recovery amid declining load growth.
Monongalia Power (FirstEnergy / Mon Power)
IOUNorthern West Virginia, including Morgantown, Clarksburg, Fairmont, and the northern coalfields
Mon Power has sought infrastructure cost recovery through its Transmission and Distribution Rider; ongoing regulatory tension exists around the Pleasants Power Station acquisition and the allocation of costs to ratepayers following the FERC-ordered transaction.
Potomac Edison (FirstEnergy)
IOUEastern panhandle of West Virginia, including Martinsburg and Jefferson County
Serves a fast-growing suburban region with significant load growth driven by data center and residential development; distribution capacity expansion investments have been a recurring rate case driver.
Mountaineer Gas Company
IOUStatewide natural gas distribution, serving approximately 220,000 customers across 37 counties
Owned by Equitable Gas (Peoples Natural Gas), Mountaineer Gas has pursued infrastructure replacement recovery riders; the PSC has conditioned approvals on pipeline safety spending commitments under federal DIMP requirements.
Wheeling Power Company (AEP)
IOUNorthern panhandle area including Wheeling and Ohio County
Operates as a smaller AEP affiliate subject to coordinated rate filings with Appalachian Power; cost allocation between the two AEP West Virginia entities has been a point of PSC inquiry in recent proceedings.
Pocahontas Land Cooperative
coopRural southern coalfield counties including McDowell, Wyoming, and Mercer counties
Faces persistent challenges of aging infrastructure in economically distressed service territory; has sought USDA RUS financing alongside state reliability investment support; load decline from coal industry contraction has pressured cost-of-service metrics.
Key Issues
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Appalachian Power's pending general rate case seeking recovery of grid modernization capital expenditures and workforce cost increases, with intervenors challenging the prudency of advanced metering infrastructure deployment costs and the pace of coal plant depreciation acceleration.
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Mon Power and Potomac Edison joint rate case proceedings addressing the legacy financial impacts of the Pleasants Power Station acquisition, including whether ratepayers should bear stranded investment risk following capacity market shortfalls and plant underperformance.
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Integration of natural gas price volatility into regulated utility cost structures following 2022–2024 market disruptions; the PSC is evaluating whether existing gas cost recovery mechanisms adequately protect low-income customers and whether hedging obligations should be codified by rule.
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Legislative and PSC tension over House Bill 3144-type mandates requiring utilities to demonstrate resource adequacy through dispatchable generation, effectively constraining renewable procurement pathways and creating potential conflict with utility IRPs that include solar and storage resources.
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Rural broadband-over-utility-infrastructure proceedings, including PSC review of pole attachment rate disputes between incumbent electric utilities and broadband providers seeking access under the state's broadband expansion initiatives tied to federal BEAD program funding.
Upcoming
Estimated deadline for Appalachian Power to submit supplemental testimony in its pending rate case docket; evidentiary hearing on revenue requirement and cost allocation expected to follow in Q3 2026 per PSC procedural schedule.
Estimated PSC public comment deadline on proposed revisions to West Virginia's net metering rules, following the Commission's initiation of a rulemaking review examining export compensation rates and standby charge structures for distributed generation customers.
Estimated statutory deadline for PSC decision in Mon Power and Potomac Edison rate case if filed on standard timeline; order expected to address Pleasants cost recovery, infrastructure rider continuation, and low-income assistance program funding levels.
Estimated date for PSC workshop on utility integrated resource plan compliance, including review of whether AEP and FirstEnergy West Virginia affiliates' IRPs satisfy the dispatchable resource adequacy standards signaled in recent legislative direction; stakeholder comments anticipated from industrial intervenors and environmental advocates.
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Staff
59| Name | Title | Phone |
|---|---|---|
| Andy Vernon Gallagher | Director, Communications Division | (304) 340-0820 |
| David Acord | Director, Water and Wastewater Division | (304) 340-0366 |
| Wendy Braswell | Director, Legal Division | (304) 340-0334 |
| Karen Buckley | Executive Secretary | (304) 340-0426 |
| Mary Friend | Director, Gas Pipeline Safety Division | (304) 340-0770 |
| Keith George | Chief Administrative Law Judge | (304) 340-0429 |
| Jessica Lane | General Counsel | (304) 340-0450 |
| Karen M. Macon | Director, Utilities Division | (304) 340-0421 |
| Earl Melton | Director, Engineering Division | (304) 340-0392 |
| Jean Potter | Director, Administration Division | (304) 340-0356 |
| Robert Adkins | Associate General Counsel | (304) 340-0868 |
| Leslie Anderson | Staff Attorney Supervisor | (304) 340-0368 |
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