Posts Tagged as ‘AEP’

September 23, 2009

AEP Strains Trust of Marylanders

American Electric Power and its “little brother” Allegheny Energy want the Maryland Public Service Commission to grant permission for the construction of PATH.  (Action is suspended because the PSC told them they didn’t fill out the application properly.)
Meanwhile, the process continues in neighboring West Virginia.  The Applicant (AEP) and various intervening parties are trading testimony [...]

May 11, 2009

What is the status of Project Mountaineer?

You remember Project Mountaineer — the dream of expanding coal-fired electrical generation in the Ohio Valley and shipping it to the East Coast via massive new transmission lines.  
Project Mountaineer was the first child of the October 1, 2004, marriage of AEP and PJM.
They don’t call it that anymore, but the basic “coal-by-wire” concept remains [...]