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The U.S. Department of Energy has determined that West Virginia has significant wind power development opportunities, [1] with a potential of 69 gigawatts. As of the start of 2020, there were 376 wind turbines in operation in West Virginia with a generating capacity of 686 megawatts (MW) and responsible for 2.7% of in-state electricity production.
Mountaineer Wind Energy Center is a wind farm on Backbone Mountain in Preston and Tucker counties in the U.S. state of West Virginia. [1] When it came online in December 2002, Mountaineer was the first wind farm in West Virginia, and the largest east of the Mississippi River. [2] Mountaineer Wind Energy Center is owned and operated by Florida ...
In 2022, West Virginia had a total summer capacity of 15,021 MW through all of its power plants, and a net generation of 56,665 GWh. [2] In 2023, the electrical energy generation mix was 85.6% coal, 6.9% natural gas, 4% wind, 3.1% hydroelectric, and 0.3% petroleum. [1]
In December 2005, a group called Mountain Communities for Responsible Energy (MCRE) was formed to oppose the development, citing concerns including potential reductions in property values, adverse effects on tourism, bat fatalities, claimed inefficiency of wind energy, tax benefits for wind factories, environmental degradation, and stresses on the local infrastructure.
The Mount Storm Wind Farm is located 120 miles west of Washington, D.C. in Grant County, West Virginia.The wind farm includes 132 Gamesa G80 wind turbines each with a two megawatt (MW) capacity along 12 miles of the Allegheny Front.
Mount Storm Lake – also known as New Stony River Reservoir – is a 1,200 acres (4.9 km 2) reservoir created in 1965 on the Stony River in Grant County, West Virginia. [1] It serves as a cooling pond for the Dominion 1.6 gigawatt Mount Storm Power Station, which provides electricity to more than two million customers in Northern Virginia. The ...
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The Mountaineer Power Plant is a major coal-fired power plant outside New Haven, West Virginia, USA. Owned by American Electric Power (AEP), it has one of the tallest chimneys in the world at 336 metres (1,102 ft). This chimney was built as part of the plant in 1980 and is not in use now.