By Steven Allen Adams for The Inter-Mountain
CHARLESTON — Company representatives of Appalachian Power and Wheeling Power will have to defend their request for another rate increase, with the public being able to provide direct input.
In a press release Thursday, the West Virginia Public Service Commission scheduled a public hearing and evidentiary hearing for Tuesday, June 17, for the $250.5 million rate increase requested in November by Appalachian Power and Wheeling Power, both subsidiaries of Columbus-based American Electric Power.
The evidentiary hearing will take place the morning of June 17 at 9 a.m. at the PSC headquarter at 201 Brooks St. in downtown Charleston, with three days set aside for the evidentiary hearing. The public hearing will also take place at the PSC headquarters the afternoon of June 17 at 5:30 p.m. The public can also participate in the public hearing virtually by contacting the PSC.
