Dominion’s Mt. Storm Gas Plant Is Real – And Bigger Than Announced
Two days ago, we brought you word of a big new gas-fired power plant headed for Dominion Energy’s Mt. Storm complex in Grant County, WV (see Big New Dominion Gas-Fired Plant Coming to Mt. Storm, WV). At the time, we had politicians talking and no paper. We flagged it with an asterisk the size of a cooling tower. The asterisk is gone. On Tuesday, Gov. Patrick Morrisey made it official, and it turns out Dominion had already filed the paperwork — a 435-page Major Source Construction Permit application submitted July 24 to the WV Department of Environmental Protection’s Division of Air Quality (permit application R14-0043, facility ID 023-00003). We’ve read it. Here’s what’s in it, including a couple of things the news coverage got wrong. Read More “Dominion’s Mt. Storm Gas Plant Is Real – And Bigger Than Announced”
There’s terrific news brewing in Grant County, West Virginia — with an asterisk roughly the size of a cooling tower. Word circulated over the weekend that Dominion Energy plans to build a brand-new natural gas-fired power plant at its Mt. Storm complex, the same site where three coal-fired units have been cranking out electrons since 1965. The key detail: the gas plant would run alongside the coal units, not replace them. That’s more power, not swapped power. We like that math.