WV’s First-Ever Gas-Fired Power Plant to Begin Construction

NOTE: This post was updated 12/17/25 to reflect that there are, in fact, four existing (but small) gas-fired power plants in WV, built years before the shale energy revolution. We have the list---two in Wayne County, one in Marshall County, and one in Pleasants County--- embedded below. Our thanks to a faithful reader for alerting us to this information. How many times over the years have we reported on (and cheerleaded for) gas-fired power plants to get built in West Virginia? MANY times. Dozens, maybe hundreds of posts about this topic. Yet, in all the time we've been writing MDN (since January 2009), not a single, solitary gas-fired power plant has been built in the Mountain State. Not one new plant! Until now. Energy investment firm Blackstone announced yesterday it has made a final investment decision (FID) to move forward with building the $1.2 billion Wolf Summit Energy Center power plant in Harrison County, WV.

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