PSC chair, FirstEnergy deny improper communication in Pleasants plant case as utilities change tune on PSC communications

PSC chair, FirstEnergy deny improper communication in Pleasants plant case as utilities change tune on PSC communications

The West Virginia Public Service Commission’s chairman denies a meeting she says she held with a FirstEnergy utility before the utility asked for a rate hike to avoid a coal-fired plant shutdown violated agency policy against communications excluding other parties…