West Virginia Takes Pennsylvania to Court Over Energy Credits

West Virginia has sued the Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission in federal court, arguing that two Pennsylvania laws — Act 40 of 2017 and Act 114 of 2020 — built a wall around the state's "alternative energy credit" market and locked out every power producer outside Pennsylvania's borders. West Virginia Attorney General JB McCuskey filed the 54-page complaint on September 3 in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania, and here's the kicker: the PUC's own annual report, published seven months earlier, told the legislature that these very rules needed a second look.

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