Friday, February 05, 2010
Appalachian Power Report Heard
WEST VIRGINIA...
After receiving numerous complaints from constituents in his district, Senate Majority Leader Truman Chafin, D-Mingo County demanded an investigation about the lengthy period before power was restored during the December snow storm. During a meeting Thursday afternoon, executives of the Appalachian Power Company told members of the West Virginia Legislature the widespread power outages affected more than 233,000 or about 53 percent of their total customer base and some of them were without electric service from December 19th to December 31st...the largest outage in their 84 years of business. However, Phil Wright, vice president for distribution at Appalachian Power, says repair efforts were focused in southern West Virginia, primarily in Mingo, Logan, Wyoming and McDowell counties. Wright also said the company had 750 employees sleeping on cots in the Logan High School gym during the repair work, which included one location where 19 separate repairs had to be made and one case where the power line had to be moved a distance of 1.7 miles.
After receiving numerous complaints from constituents in his district, Senate Majority Leader Truman Chafin, D-Mingo County demanded an investigation about the lengthy period before power was restored during the December snow storm. During a meeting Thursday afternoon, executives of the Appalachian Power Company told members of the West Virginia Legislature the widespread power outages affected more than 233,000 or about 53 percent of their total customer base and some of them were without electric service from December 19th to December 31st...the largest outage in their 84 years of business. However, Phil Wright, vice president for distribution at Appalachian Power, says repair efforts were focused in southern West Virginia, primarily in Mingo, Logan, Wyoming and McDowell counties. Wright also said the company had 750 employees sleeping on cots in the Logan High School gym during the repair work, which included one location where 19 separate repairs had to be made and one case where the power line had to be moved a distance of 1.7 miles.
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