Highlights
29,000-square-mile service area, covering three million people in five states.
Owns and operates all or part of 19 power stations using coal, oil, and water as fuel.
New multimillion-dollar operations center staffed 24 hours a day, 365 days a year.
Allegheny Energy delivers electric service to more than 1.5 million customers in an area from central West Virginia to the New York border and from beyond the Ohio River to Baltimore, Maryland, and Washington, D.C. Incorporated in 1925, Allegheny Energy is a holding company that consists of Allegheny Power, the electric company; Allegheny Energy Supply, a retail and wholesale energy supplier; and Allegheny Ventures, a nonutility that develops complementary products such as telecommunications and energy-saving devices. Since the Enron collapse in 2001, Allegheny has shifted away from generation and marketing to focus on energy delivery. Part of this plan has involved selling off some of its assets, such as its West Virginia natural gas operations, managed by subsidiary Monongahela Power, for a reported $217 million.