Allegheny Energy News

Allegheny Power, the electric delivery business of Allegheny Energy, Inc., is seeking approval from the West Virginia Public Service Commission to use securitized financing to fund the remaining portion of its flue gas desulfurization project at the Fort Martin Power Station.

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Rumors abound in this tiny town about whether or not the power station is going to close.

The Tribune-Review can be reached online or at 412-321-6460. Greene County commissioners and officials from Allegheny Energy Inc., announced that a scholarship endowment in the amount of $250,000 will be presented to Waynesburg University over the next three years.

Kim Leonard can be reached via e-mail or at 412-380-5606. The region's three electric utilities met or outperformed most state standards for fixing power failures in 2008, according to a state report issued Thursday.

There are plenty of activities to choose from in the entertainment category in the Alle-Kiski Valley that are free of charge or reasonable in price.

Judy Pletcher remembers when Rockwood, Pa. was a sleepy spot without even a stoplight.

The Gazette printed on June 4 a letter to the editor from H. Russell Frisby Jr. . He has acknowledged his law firm represents the PATH Education and Awareness Team, which is likely a group formed by Allegheny Energy.

Thousands of people are without power and reports of road and basement flooding are widespread in western Pennsylvania where severe storms produced more than four inches of rain in some areas.

Exelon Generation today announced that it has won commitments from electricity delivery companies Allegheny Power and PECO Energy to provide more than 7 million megawatt-hours of generation supply beginning on January 1, 2011, through May 31, 2013.

A small Pennsylvania town is trying to ban coal mining in a battle being played out across the state as rural communities try to assert control over mining, gas drilling and other businesses.

A long-awaited study of commuter rail lines between Pittsburgh and points in Westmoreland County is due by the end of this month, but don't look for trains as an alternative to Route 28 or the Parkway East just yet.

The Borough of Mercersburg will soon lighten up with 162 new street lights that should save the borough about $3,400 a year on its light bill.

Rick Stouffer can be reached via e-mail or at 412-320-7853. Allegheny Power's second electricity auction produced lower prices than its initial auction two months ago -- good news for customers worried about the direction of power prices once rate caps expire in 2010.

The markets ended mostly flat Friday after a mixed bag of unemployment data. The Dow finished up 0.15%, the Nasdaq finished down 0.25% and the S&P 500 ended down 0.03%. Here are some of Fridaya s market winners and losers.

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Residents near Kemptown have filed a motion to intervene on a proposed electric substation planned for Bartholows Road.

Every instinct in Don Thoma -- as a neighbor and as a Hempfield Township fire chief -- wanted to move a critically injured woman from beneath live power lines as she lay in the yard of her West Hempfield Drive home.

American Electric Power Co., Allegheny Energy and Ameren Corp's future earnings potentially could be more than wiped out by costs under a cap-and-trade program requiring purchase of carbon emission credits, according to a report released today by the Investor Responsibility Research Center Institute and Trucost, a provider of data and analysis on ...

Allegheny Power, the electricity delivery unit of Allegheny Energy, Inc. is committed to working with other electricity providers, technology vendors, regulators and interested stakeholders to develop smart grid technology, the company reiterated on June 2. Built upon technology platforms from Augusta Systems, Allegheny's Research Ridge Test ...