Welcome to the home page of the West Virginia University Electric Industry Research Group (EIRG), coordinated by the WVU National Research Center for Coal and Energy. At this site, you can access research reports prepared by the EIRG regarding the impacts of deregulation and restructuring of the electric industry in West Virginia. The EIRG has prepared the following reports for the Office of the Governor of West Virginia:

• Interim Report No. 1: Executive Summary of the First Year of the Project

• Interim Report No. 2: Current Federal and State-Level Actions on Electric Industry Deregulation and Restructuring

• Interim Report No. 3—Part I: Implications for Electricity Producers

• Interim Report No. 3—Part II: Implications for Electricity Producers (continued)

• Interim Report No. 3—Tables and Figures (Acrobat format only)

• Interim Report No. 4: Implications for West Virginia Electricity Consumers—Part 1

• Interim Report No. 4: Implications for West Virginia Electricity consumers—Part II

• Interim Report No. 5: Transmission Enhancement and Expansion

• Interim Report No. 6: Available soon.

Other Relevant Documents

• Comments by the WVU Electric Industry Research Group to the WV House of Delegates Judiciary Committee with regard to HB4277, February 23, 1998. HB4277, if passed into law would authorize the WV Public Service commission to prescribe and implement a plan whereby retail customers in West Virginia could obtain direct access to competitive markets for their electric power supply.

• Testimony of Cecil H. Underwood, Governor of the State of West Virginia, to the Interior Subcommittee of the House Appropriations Committee, January 28, 1998 regarding energy research and development in the State and nation (published with permission from the Governor's Press Office).

The EIRG gratefully acknowledges financial support from the Office of the Governor of West Virginia; the WVU Coal and Energy Research Bureau; the WVU National Research Center for Coal and Energy; and the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Industrial Technologies.

The EIRG has benefitted enormously from meetings and interactions with the Public Service Commission of West Virginia; the Harvard University Electricity Policy Group; the Carnegie Mellon University, Department of Engineering and Public Policy; the West Virginia Coal Association; the West Virginia Development Office; the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Electricity Policy; Allegheny Power Company; and American Electric Power Company.

West Virginia University EIRG Members

Muhammad A. Choudhry Computer Science & Electrical Engineering tel: 304/293-6371, ext. 524 email: mchoudhr@wvu.edu Stratford Douglas Economics tel: 304/293-7863 email: sdougla2@wvu.edu David Greenstreet Bureau of Business and Economic Research tel: 304/ 293-7829 email: dgreenst@wvu.edu Caulton L. Irwin National Research Center for Coal and Energy tel: 304/293-7381, ext. 5403 email: cirwin2@wvu.edu

Ronald L. Klein Computer Science & Electrical Engineering tel: 304/ 293-6371, ext. 518 rklein3@wvu.edu Thomas F. Torries Resource Economics tel: 304/ 293-3752, ext. 4475 email: ttorries@wvu.edu Tom Witt Bureau of Business and Economic Research tel: 304/293-7835 twitt@wvu.edu

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