Windstorm affected many industrial customers

by George Hohmann

Daily Mail Business Editor

Wednesday July 4, 2012

Friday's windstorm affected many of Appalachian Power's industrial customers in West Virginia, said spokeswoman Jeri Matheney.

Appalachian has 2,692 industrial customers across southern West Virginia. Many are among the state's largest consumers of electricity.

"A lot of coal companies are out of power," Matheney said Wednesday afternoon.

The plant at Alloy, Fayette County, which makes silicon metal was without power but service has been restored. "It was on their line not ours," Matheney said.

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