Power plants and the grid in West Virginia
West Virginia has 42 power plants with 15.3 GW of capacity, coal the largest share at 12.6 GW. The map shows 10 data centers in West Virginia. Its interconnection queue holds 34 active requests for 5.2 GW.
Capacity by fuel
42 power plants with 15.3 GW of capacity, planned generators left out.
- Coal: 12.6 GW from 10 plants (82%)
- Natural gas: 1.2 GW from 4 plants (8%)
- Wind: 855 MW from 8 plants (6%)
- Hydro: 341 MW from 12 plants (2%)
- Solar: 322 MW from 6 plants (2%)
- Battery storage: 32 MW from 1 plant (under 1%)
- Biomass: 3 MW from 1 plant (under 1%)
Largest plants
- John E Amos: Coal, 2.9 GW
- FirstEnergy Harrison Power Station: Coal, 2 GW
- Mt Storm: Coal, 1.6 GW
- Mitchell (WV): Coal, 1.6 GW
- Mountaineer: Coal, 1.3 GW
- Pleasants Power Station: Coal, 1.3 GW
- FirstEnergy Fort Martin Power Station: Coal, 1.1 GW
- Longview Power Plant: Coal, 710 MW
- Ceredo Generating Station: Natural gas, 450 MW
- Pleasants Energy LLC: Natural gas, 341 MW
Planned and under construction
10 generators planned, under construction or testing, 859 MW in all, not counted above.
- Natural gas: 525 MW
- Battery storage: 150 MW
- Solar: 120 MW
- Hydro: 65 MW
Grid operators
- PJM (ISO or RTO): 42 plants
Data centers
10 data center sites on the map.
- Operators with the most sites: Alpha Innovations (1), Alpha Technologies (1), CloudHQ (1), Enterprise Cloud Computing Center EC3 (1), Fundamental Data LLC (1), National Energy Technology Laboratory (1), QTS (1), TransGas Development LLC (1), US Secure Hosting Center (USSHC) (1)
Interconnection queue
34 active requests to connect 5.2 GW of new generation and storage, and 4 suspended requests, from Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory's Queued Up data.
- Natural gas: 2.8 GW in 5 requests
- Solar: 1.5 GW in 21 requests
- Wind: 763 MW in 5 requests
- Hydro: 51 MW in 1 request
- Oil: 50 MW in 1 request
- Battery storage: 30 MW in 1 request
Sources
Power plants: EIA-860M (US); NRCan NACEI (Canada, Mexico); WRI GPPD (Mexico); OpenStreetMap via Geofabrik (Canada, Mexico gap fill); USGS USWTDB/USPVDB; EPA eGRID; Natural Earth admin-1; HIFLD control areas; location attributes from WorldPop (R2025A), Global Solar Atlas PVOUT, Global Wind Atlas 4, USFS Wildfire Hazard Potential, the USGS National Seismic Hazard Model and the previous publish's lines and substations; water distances from OpenStreetMap via Geofabrik; gas distances and county queue from the previous publish's EIA gas pipelines and LBNL Queued Up requests; nearest city from Natural Earth populated places; cooling degree days from NOAA NCEI nClimDiv county normals; elevation and slope from the Copernicus DEM GLO-30 (ESA, via AWS Open Data); water stress from WRI Aqueduct 4.0; ozone nonattainment from the EPA Green Book; drought from the U.S. Drought Monitor; tribal land from US Census TIGER/Line. License: ODbL (derivative database; EIA content is public domain, NRCan OGL-Canada, WRI GPPD CC BY 4.0; location attributes from WorldPop, Global Solar Atlas, Global Wind Atlas, LBNL Queued Up and WRI Aqueduct CC BY 4.0, USFS, USGS, EIA, NOAA, EPA, US Census and Natural Earth public domain, Copernicus DEM GLO-30 © DLR e.V. and Airbus Defence and Space GmbH, the U.S. Drought Monitor courtesy of NDMC)
Data centers: Epoch AI (CC BY); OpenStreetMap via the public Overpass API (ODbL, © OpenStreetMap contributors); Ringmast4r Global-Data-Center-Map (custom permissive license, attribution required); location attributes from WorldPop (R2025A), Global Solar Atlas PVOUT, Global Wind Atlas 4, USFS Wildfire Hazard Potential, the USGS National Seismic Hazard Model and the previous publish's lines and substations; gas distances and county queue from the previous publish's EIA gas pipelines and LBNL Queued Up requests; nearest city from Natural Earth populated places; generation within 20 km from the previous publish's plants; cooling degree days from NOAA NCEI nClimDiv county normals; elevation and slope from the Copernicus DEM GLO-30 (ESA, via AWS Open Data); water stress from WRI Aqueduct 4.0; ozone nonattainment from the EPA Green Book; drought from the U.S. Drought Monitor; tribal land from US Census TIGER/Line. License: CC BY; ODbL; custom permissive; WRI Aqueduct CC BY 4.0; USFS, USGS, EIA, NOAA, EPA, US Census and Natural Earth public domain; Copernicus DEM GLO-30 © DLR e.V. and Airbus Defence and Space GmbH; the U.S. Drought Monitor courtesy of NDMC
Interconnection queue requests: Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and GridTracker, "Queued Up". License: CC BY 4.0
States and provinces (simplified polygons): Natural Earth 10m admin-1. License: Public domain