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12/19/2013
Appalachian Power filed an application with the Virginia State Corporation Commission (SCC) requesting permission to make improvements to the company's 36-mile portion of the Cloverdale-Lexington 500 kilovolt (kV) transmission line. The proposed work will replace all existing conductors-the wires that carry electricity-and replace or add approximately 12 towers. The line is located in Botetourt and Rockbridge Counties beginning near APCo's Cloverdale Substation and running 36 miles northeastward to its interconnection with the line section owned by Dominion, approximately three miles west of the City of Lexington.
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12/18/2013
Appalachian Power today filed a request with the Virginia State Corporation Commission seeking recovery of electric transmission costs. The 3.6% rate change is the first sought by the company since 2009 for transmission infrastructure improvements. The company is requesting implementation in May 2014.
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11/21/2013
Appalachian Power today filed a request with the Virginia State Corporation Commission (SCC) to build an electric transmission project in parts of northern Campbell County and the southern part of the City of Lynchburg.
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9/26/2013
Yesterday an Appalachian Power affiliate filed a request with the W.Va. Public Service Commission for approval to upgrade transmission facilities in the Kanawha Valley. AEP West Virginia Transmission Company, Inc., announced the upgrades in June.
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8/27/2013
Appalachian Power and Wheeling Power, together with the Public Service Commission of West Virginia Staff, the PSC Consumer Advocate Division and multiple industrial customers, Monday filed a settlement agreement seeking the Commission's approval in the companies' ENEC case.
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7/24/2013
Kingsport Power, doing business in Tennessee as AEP Appalachian Power, has filed a request with Tennessee regulators under its existing tariff to pass through to retail customers a decrease in transmission costs. The company is requesting an overall decrease of about 1.3 percent in electric rates effective September 1.
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7/24/2013
A study funded by Appalachian Power provides a historic and fascinating account of the families that settled in the Pulaski County area known as Dunkard's Bottom some 200 years ago. The study was conducted by S&ME, Inc. and Harvey Research and Consulting as part of the company's federal relicensing process for the Claytor Hydroelectric Project and is available to the public on-line and at Claytor Lake State Park.
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7/23/2013
New River fishermen, canoeists, kayakers and other recreationalists now have a new tool to help them anticipate water flows on the river downstream from Appalachian Power's Claytor Hydroelectric Plant, near Radford. A new website allows users to see how and when water releases that have occurred will affect flows at seven downstream locations from Peppers Ferry Road to Glen Lyn.
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6/26/2013
Upcoming power plant retirements in the Kanawha and Ohio valleys as early as 2015 will change the way electric power flows on the electric transmission grid. To accommodate those changes and address additional issues identified by an independent regional transmission operator, an Appalachian Power affiliate will file requests this year with regulators to make more than $337 million in upgrades in West Virginia, with most of the work slated for the Kanawha Valley.
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6/24/2013
Appalachian Power has awarded more than $53,000 to schools in its service area as part of the company's robotics and teacher vision grant programs.
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6/19/2013
Area libraries in West Virginia are loaning Kill-A-Watt™ meters to customers, made possible as part of Appalachian Power's energy efficiency initiative. A Kill-A-Watt™ meter measures the amount of electricity consumed from household electric appliances and gadgets.
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5/29/2013
Today Appalachian Power requested approval from state regulators to convert a portion of the existing Clinch River Plant in Russell County, Va., to operate with natural gas. Changing two of the three generating units from coal-fired to natural gas-fired is the least-cost alternative to meeting customers' power needs, positively supports the economy and reduces emissions.
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5/29/2013
Today Appalachian Power requested approval from state regulators to convert a portion of the existing Clinch River Plant in Russell County to operate with natural gas. Changing two of the three generating units from coal-fired to natural gas-fired is the least-cost alternative to meeting customers' power needs, positively supports the local economy and reduces emissions.
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5/23/2013
Debra Osborne has been named plant manager for the Mountaineer and Philip Sporn plants, bringing more than 26 years of power plant experience to the position.
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5/2/2013
Today Appalachian Power and an American Electric Power affiliate, AEP Appalachian Transmission Company, Inc., filed a joint request with the Virginia State Corporation Commission for approval to build the Cloverdale Extra High Voltage (EHV) Transmission Improvements Project in Botetourt County.
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4/25/2013
A section of Interstate 77 just north of exit 138 at Ripley will close briefly this evening sometime around the five o'clock hour so that Appalachian Power crews can safely raise into place a 69 kV transmission line that crosses the highway. The closure will affect both northbound and southbound lanes and should last around 20 minutes.
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4/25/2013
Appalachian Power today announced a new effort to help lure large capital investment and high-tech, high-paying jobs to the area. The program targets a growing industry by identifying sites in western Virginia that are independently qualified to meet requirements to support a data center.
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4/19/2013
Appalachian Power and Wheeling Power, both subsidiaries of American Electric Power (AEP), today filed a vegetation management plan with the Public Service Commission of West Virginia.
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4/1/2013
Appalachian Power, along with Wheeling Power, today submitted its annual filing to the Public Service Commission of West Virginia (PSC) reporting fuel costs. Both companies are subsidiaries of American Electric Power (AEP).
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3/29/2013
Appalachian Power today filed for rate changes to address increased generation and environmental costs. If approved by the Virginia State Corporation Commission (SCC), the changes would equate to an increase of about 1.5 percent above today's residential electric rate in Virginia and will take effect early next year.
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3/6/2013
The high-water event that helped fill the Smith Mountain Project this winter also washed clean the riverbanks of the tributaries that feed it.
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2/28/2013
Changes in how the shoreline is managed at Smith Mountain and Leesville lakes could be on the way if the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) adopts a proposal it received today by several parties.
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1/31/2013
Heavy rainfall overnight in the Appalachian Power territory in Virginia resulted in high water conditions this morning on many of the rivers on which the company operates hydroelectric facilities
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1/31/2013
Water conditions have improved throughout the day on many of the rivers on which Appalachian Power operates hydroelectric facilities in Virginia. An earlier potential dam failure emergency condition has been lifted.
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1/31/2013
As of 2:30 p.m. Appalachian has downgraded the emergency conditions on the New River to a non-failure emergency condition. Earlier today the company notified emergency officials in proximity to the company's Byllesby and Buck hydroelectric facilities near Ivanhoe that there was a potential failure situation. That situation has been removed.
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1/18/2013
Appalachian Power crews and outside workers have restored power to more than 30,000 customers as a result of yesterday's storm. Outages peaked around midnight at more than 128,000 customers.
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1/18/2013
Power outages peaked this morning as a result of yesterday's fast-moving snow storm through Appalachian Power's service area. More than 130,000 customers are without power; 121,000 of those are in Virginia where the damage is most severe. Approximately 7,700 customers in Tennessee and 1,400 customers in West Virginia are also without electricity as a result of the storm.
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1/16/2013
Appalachian Power is making preparations for potential power outages that could occur starting tomorrow from a fast-moving winter storm. The latest information suggests beginning Thursday morning rain will change to snow in the mountainous regions of southwest Virginia and southeastern West Virginia.