By Brad McElhinny 

The West Virginia Public Service Commission has set a mid-June evidentiary hearing date in a big power company rate case, and commissioners approved a major regional grocery store chain’s request to intervene because of how its costs could be affected.

A Letter to the Editor from

 Jim Kotcon, Chair 
WV Chapter of Sierra Club 

 Thank you for David Beard’s article regarding the Dec. 9 testimony from PJM to the WV Legislature regarding the reliability of our electric grid. It is certainly true that rising electricity demands, especially from large “data centers,” combined with closing existing electric generating plants creates concern about the reliability of our electric grid. 

By John Lynch for WTRF

The Public Service Commission of West Virginia approved two shared solar power projects on Monday.

By Curtis Tate

Appalachian Power said it can convert two of its coal-burning plants in West Virginia to 40 percent gas by 2030, 100 percent gas by 2030, or shut both down by 2032.

By Ryan Kennedy

Behind-the-meter solar for homes, businesses, and communities comes with numerous benefits, said a paper from Stanford engineering professor Mark Jacobson.projects can generally be placed in two buckets: they are either large utility-scale ground mounted projects connected to the grid, or they are smaller, distributed projects, typically 20 MW in capacity or less.