Solar panel installers are up before dawn, loading pallets into trucks at a warehouse in Huntington, West Virginia. Today’s job sites include a backyard in the hills south of the city and the roof of a homeless shelter.
This scene was hard to imagine 15 years ago, when mines employed almost twice as many people in West Virginia as they do now, and it’s partly thanks to the Biden administration’s climate law.
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (WSAZ) - West Virginia state regulators argue Appalachian Power’s reliability is unreasonable.
That argument comes as the West Virginia Public Service Commission considers a request from Appalachian Power and sister company Wheeling Power to change measuring sticks for how electric reliability is measured.
