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The staff filing Thursday urged the Public Service Commission to compel West Virginia American Water to comply with requests submitted last month for information from the utility. Without the information, the PSC can't complete the investigation into the Mountaineer Gas outage on Charleston's West Side in November.
FirstEnergy has conceded possible West Virginia ratepayer effects from what is believed to be the largest bribery scheme in Ohio history.
Coal costs are looming anachronistically large in utility rate cases pending before the West Virginia PSC as renewable generation grows in the U.S. electric power sector.
West Virginia American Water said it would cooperate fully with a state investigation to determine causes of a water line break and subsequent extended gas outage that deprived Charleston residents
The approval for American Electric Power's Appalachian Power, Mountaineer Gas and Wheeling Power responds to a request AEP filed in March to raise rates through a surcharge the West Virginia PSC approved in 2021 that allows them to recover infrastructure investments not included in current rates.