Mon Power Adds New Line and Substation Employees from Power Systems Institute Training Program
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Clarksburg – Chazz Jones , West Union ; Donald Pethtel, III , Jane Lew Elkins – Scott Tacy , Beverly Gassaway – Nathan Shafer , Napier Harrisville – Clayton Stunkard , Pennsboro Hinton – Lawson Patterson , Meadow Bridge Marlinton – David Kiner , Marlinton Morgantown – Nathaniel Bolinger , Albright ; Michael Poe , Bruceton Mills ; Dalton Russell , Fairmont Parkersburg – Tyler Berry , Washington ; Trenton Bills , St. Marys ; Jonathan Cain , Parkersburg ; Darren Townsend , Mineral Wells Sistersville – Jerrod Longwell , Middlebourne Spencer – Austin Dobbins , Left Hand Weston - Buckhannon – Alex Clutter , Diana White Hall – Mark Freed , Bridgeport .Clarksburg – Travis Hawley , Morgantown Parkersburg – Brent Ash , Cutler, Ohio ; Daniel Raper , Washington White Hall – Logan Hamilton , Fairview .PSI is an award-winning, two-year educational program originally developed by FirstEnergy in 2000 to help prepare the companys next generation of utility line and substation workers.The PSI curriculum requires two-and-a-half days each week spent at Pierpont Community & Technical College completing academic course work with the remainder of the week spent at a Mon Power training facility in White Hall, W.Va., focusing on safe work practices and procedures in the electrical environment.The new employees include 18 line workers and 4 new substation electricians who are recent graduates of the companys Power Systems Institute (PSI), a utility training partnership established in 2012 with Pierpont Community & Technical College in Fairmont, W.Va.