With electricity bills consistently higher than the national average, and only expected to continue to rise, West Virginia is at a crossroads in its energy pathway. Consequently, the state’s regulatory commission has opened a task force to ensure an affordable electricity supply for West Virginia’s ratepayers, representing a real opportunity for commissioners to assess options for reigning in the state’s rising energy bills.
The commission has an important choice to make: it can either proceed with a proposal to have utilities run the state’s coal plants more or it can shift to require that utilities utilize the lowest-cost sources of energy on the grid available to customers regardless of fuel type.
