Plan for Massive 3,500-MW Va. Gas-Fired Plant Slashed 91% to 300-MW

Two weeks ago, MDN brought you the news that Christmas had come early with the announcement of a plan to build the country's largest natural gas-fired power plant at a proposed data center site in Pittsylvania County, Virginia (see Massive Data Center with 3,500 MW Gas-Fired Plant Proposed for Va.). Balico, LLC applied to rezone more than 2,200 acres for a proposed campus that would include its own on-site gas-fired power plant complex using Marcellus/Utica molecules from the Mountain Valley Pipeline. The project hit major pushback from local residents and politicians, and just like that, Balico pulled the plan.

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