By Curtis Tate for West Virginia Public Broadcasting
Over a 12-month period in 2023 and 2024, Appalachian Power lost $87 million running its Amos, Mountaineer and Mitchell plants, according to written testimony filed to the West Virginia Public Service Commission.
Chelsea Hotaling, an energy consultant working on behalf of Citizen Action Group, Solar United Neighbors and Energy Efficient West Virginia, wrote that the company did this to burn off an excess supply of coal.
Appalachian Power is seeking a fuel cost recovery from the PSC that would add roughly $2 a month to the average electricity customer’s bill.
It’s not clear whether the loss at the three power plants is part of the proposed increase.
Emmett Pepper, policy director for Energy Efficient West Virginia, says Appalachian Power’s customers should not have to bear that cost.
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