By JESS MANCINI
The Parkersburg News and Sentinel
PARKERSBURG, W.Va. – Two utilities have informed the West Virginia Public Service Commission they will neither accept the commission’s conditions for the purchase of the Pleasants Power Station nor seek a rehearing with a federal agency that rejected the deal.
Allegheny Energy Supply Co. had planned to sell the Pleasants facility to Monongahela Power and Potomac Edison, all subsidiaries of FirstEnergy Corp., for $195 million, which was opposed by consumer groups. The sale would have placed the facility into the regulated market in West Virginia and would have been guaranteed a profit.
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission in January denied the request to buy the power plant.
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