The WV Public Service Commission issued an Order today
scheduling public comment hearings on Potomac Edison's proposed
17.2% rate increase.  Two local hearings will be held in
Shepherdstown at the Shepherd University Frank Center on October
6, 2014.  The first hearing begins at 1:00 p.m. and will be
followed by a second hearing beginning at 6:00 p.m.  Customers
are strongly encouraged to attend and sign up to speak briefly
about how the proposed rate increase will affect you.  If you
can't make the start time, that's okay, late arrivals will still
be permitted to speak as long as they arrive before the hearing
concludes.  This hearing is also the place to tell the
Commission how you feel about its decision to make you pay the
$7.5M cost of Potomac Edison's monthly meter reading ordered as
a result the General Investigation into the company's meter
reading and billing practices.  See you there! The Amish are a
peaceful people.  They rarely get involved in worldly things
like electric transmission permitting ba