1200 MW Gas-Fired Power Plant Files to Build in Mon County, WV
Last Thursday Longview Power filed an application with the West Virginia Public Service Commission to build and operate a Marcellus gas-fired electric generating facility in Monongalia County, WV, near Maidsville. The Longview Power Clean Energy Center, as it’s called, will include a 1,200 megawatt combined cycle power plant AND a 70 megawatt solar farm–both built next to Longview’s existing state-of-the-art 710 megawatt coal-fired power plant. A real “all of the above” type of facility.
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