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Hurricane Fiona Deals Another Blow to Puerto Rico’s Power Grid

Hurricane Fiona made landfall on Puerto Rico on Sept. 18 as a category 1 hurricane with torrential rain and damaging winds – at 80 miles an hour – leading to an island-wide power outage, as the electric system experienced several transmission line disruptions. The storm hit nearly five years after Hurricane Maria destroyed 80 percent…...

Appalachian Power Requests $65 Million Rate Hike for Electric Service in Virginia

Virginia Commission Authorizes Fuel Rate Increase for Dominion Energy

The Virginia State Corporation Commission on Sept. 16 authorized a rise to the fuel rate for customers of Dominion Energy Inc. that involves a mitigation plan, which would lay out the recovery of the $1.02 billion projected fuel deferral over three years. Moreover, the commission approved a provision under which Dominion agreed to renounce recovery…...