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The West Virginia Public Service Commission has approved rate increases for Mon Power and Potomac Edison that will raise the average monthly bill for a residential customer by over $14. The PSC also approved an agreement solar energy advocates and the utilities proposed shaping the future of net metering for customers.
FirstEnergy utilities and solar advocates have reached an agreement over the utilities' net metering plan for customers that generate their own electricity. The deal proposed to the West Virginia Public Service Commission by Mon Power, Potomac Edison and groups including solar installer Solar Holler would resolve what has been an especially intense rate case-based dispute.
FAIRMONT, W.V. -- Mon Power and Potomac Edison, subsidiaries of FirstEnergy Corp. , have filed a settlement agreement with the Public Service Commission of West Virginia to resolve the outstanding...
The West Virginia Public Service Commission Consumer Advocate Division has questioned a PSC staff recommendation to exclude West Virginia American Water from a staff-proposed $70 million hydrant replacement grant program. West Virginia American Water is the state's largest investor-owned utility, but some publicly owned utilities have higher operating revenues per hydrant than WVAW.
Solar advocates, led by Solar Holler founder and CEO Dan Conant, are fighting a plan by FirstEnergy utilities Mon Power and Potomac Edison to change the structure of net metering in West Virginia. They say the plan would short-change customers who generate their own electricity, but the utilities and others, including the state Public Service Commission Consumer Advocate Division, say non-solar customers are subsidizing solar customers under the current setup.