The Mitchell Plant team has been out in the community generating more than just power; they are filling needs all over Ohio and Marshall counties.
It all started with some seed money through the AEP Caring Together mini-grant program, through which AEP Administrator, Kelly Clemons wrote seven successful grant applications to provide seed monies for the projects. The Mitchell team, including many supervisors, engineers, chemists, administrative assistants, accounting team members, operators, superintendents, retirees, and contractors collected all kinds of items to support each of these organizations. Organizations supported include The Gabriel Project, Youth Service Systems, Marshall County Parent Educator Association, Marshall County Family Resource Network, Washington Lands Elementary School (Communities in Schools), Moundsville Middle (Communities in Schools), and Haven Maternity Home.
On Wednesday, however, they rolled up their sleeves and gutted the kitchen in the Haven Maternity Home, a three-story, 1910 Victorian home at 1306 2nd Street in Moundsville which will house three pregnant women and their toddlers. Women may live on premises until their child is 6 months old while developing a life plan and gaining skills to live independently.
Appalachian Power has 1 million customers in Virginia, West Virginia, and Tennessee (as AEP Appalachian Power). It is part of American Electric Power, which is focused on building a smarter energy infrastructure and delivering new technologies and custom energy solutions. AEP’s approximately 17,000 employees operate and maintain the nation’s largest electricity transmission system and more than 224,000 miles of distribution lines to efficiently deliver safe, reliable power to nearly 5.6 million regulated customers in 11 states. AEP is also one of the nation’s largest electricity producers with approximately 31,000 megawatts of diverse generating capacity, including more than 6,900 megawatts of renewable energy.
