#West Virginia

Cleveland-Cliffs Inc. has announced that it will establish a new distribution transformer production plant in Weirton, West Virginia.

West Virginia: Appalachian Power and its affiliate, AEP West Virginia Transmission Co., are upgrading the electric transmission system in northern W. Virginia.

USA, West Virginia: Utility company Potomac Edison has completed equipment upgrades at a substation in Jefferson County, West Virginia, to enhance service reliability and help meet high winter demand for electricity for about 2,200 customers in the Ranson and Charles Town areas.

USA, West Virginia: Mon Power has completed a new substation and power lines that will provide electric service to a new Marcellus shale gas facility under construction in Doddridge County, West Virginia.

USA, West Virginia: To help enhance service reliability for customers, FirstEnergy Corp. is implementing distribution and transmission infrastructure projects totalling approximately $238 million in Mon Power’s 34-county West Virginia service area.

USA, Maryland: FirstEnergy is continuing work this summer and throughout the remainder of 2016 on distribution and transmission infrastructure projects totalling approximately $128 million in Potomac Edison’s service area in western Maryland and the Eastern Panhandle of West Virginia.

USA: Potomac Edison, a subsidiary of FirstEnergy, has begun construction of a new 34.5 kV power line as part of the $5 million project which will link an existing substation near Baker, West Virginia, to a new substation that will be built in Mathias, West Virginia, in 2017.

USA, West Virginia: FirstEnergy is building a new $63 million substation to help support the oil and gas industry, but also to improve service for customers in three counties in West Virginia.

USA, West Virginia: The tractor-trailer hauling an American Electric Power (AEP) transformer overturned on the Oakwood Road entrance ramp in Charleston Monday, causing a spill of transformer oil and a shutdown of both the entrance and exit ramps in the busy area between I-64 and U.S. 119 roads for the entire day.