NOTICE OF FILING

PUBLIC SERVICE COMMISSION OF WEST VIRGINIA CHARLESTON CASE NO. 16-0201-E-CS SEVEN ISLANDS ENVIRONMENTAL SOLUTIONS, LLC Raleigh County, West Virginia Application for a siting certificate to construct and operate a wholesale electric generating facility and associated interconnection facilities in Raleigh County, West Virginia. NOTICE OF FILING On February 16, 2016, Seven Islands Environmental Solutions, LLC (Applicant) filed an application for a Siting Certificate, pursuant to West Virginia Code c 24-2-11c, to authorize the construction and operation of an electric wholesale generating facility and associated interconnection facilities (Project). Upon its completion, the Project will be used by the Applicant to generate electricity exclusively for wholesale in the competitive wholesale market in West Virginia and other locations. The Applicant is duly authorized to conduct business in West Virginia. The Applicant proposed to construct a 3.2 MW methane gas electric generating facility and related appurtenances on a tract of land located at the Raleigh County Solid Waste Authority (RCSWA) landfill in Beckley, West Virginia. The application is on file with and available for public inspection at the Public Service Commission, 201 Brooks Street, in Charleston, West Virginia. The Applicant estimates that construction of the Project will cost approximately $3.6 million. The Applicant asserts that the Project is not a utility providing service to the public and there will be no impact to West Virginia ratepayers. Rates charged for electricity sold by the Project will be subject to regulation by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC). The Applicant will be the entity responsible for overseeing the construction and operation of the Project and for the sale of electricity generated by the Project. The Applicant will operate the Project as a qualifying facility (small power production facility) under the Public Utility Regulatory Policies Act of 1978. The Applicant will enter into an interconnection and operating agreement with PJM Interconnection LLC (PJM), a regional transmission organization, that will govern the Project’s interconnection with Appalachian Power Company’s (“APCo”) Whitestick substation which is located in Raleigh County, West Virginia. The Applicant, or the purchasers of the electricity generated by the Project, will enter into transmission service agreements with APCo to govern the transmission of the electricity across APCo’s facilities. Such transmission of the electricity will be subject to the terms of PJM’s Open Access Transmission Tariff on file with the FERC. The transmission line will not compete with other utilities and will be for the sole purpose of transmitting the electricity generated at the Project onto the grid for the wholesale market. The interconnection point with APCo is at the edge of the RCSWA’s property, after which the generated electricity will follow an existing corridor approximately one and one-quarter (1.25) miles along APCo’s existing 12.47 kV Piney View line to the Whitestick substation. The Applicant asserts that it is not a public utility within the meaning of West Virginia Code c 24-2-11 and does not believe that need for the Project, nor Tariff Rule 42 Exhibits should be addressed by the Commission. Therefore, the Applicant requests a waiver of the Public Service Commission’s filing requirements to provide certain information including the utility service rendered, proposed rates, project construction costs, project financing and estimates of operating revenues and expenses, and the information required by Tariff Rule 42 (e.g., statements of net income, operating revenues, depreciate, West Virginia jurisdictional rate base, plant in service and capital structure). And, because Applicant will not be regulated by the Commission as a public utility, it requests a waiver of all the Commission’s filing and reporting requirements, meter requirements, customer relations, inspection and test, standards and quality of service, promotional practices, consumer reimbursement program, uniform accounting requirements, and the requirement to allow Commission inspection of books, papers, reports and statements that are specific to regulated public utilities whose practices impact captive ratepayers. Anyone desiring to protest or intervene should file a written protest or notice of intervention within thirty (30) days following the date of this publication unless otherwise modified by Commission order. Failure to timely protest or intervene can affect your right to protest aspects of this Siting Certificate case for the Project, or to participate in future proceedings. All protests or requests to intervene should briefly state the reason for the protest or intervention. Requests to intervene must comply with the Commission’s rules on intervention set forth in the Commission’s Rules of Practice and Procedure. All protests and interventions should be addressed to Executive Secretary, Post Office Box 812, Charleston, West Virginia 25323. In the absence of substantial protests within said thirty (30) day period, the Commission may waive formal hearing and grant the application based on the evidence submitted with said application and its review thereof. SEVEN ISLANDS ENVIRONMENTAL SOLUTIONS, LLC 2-22-MON-1-RH; LG 4096