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In September 2022, Competitive Power Ventures (CPV) announced that it had selected West Virginia for a 1,800-megawatt (later upgraded to 2,060 MW), combined-cycle natural gas power station that also uses carbon capture and storage (see CPV Announces Plans for Massive $3 Billion, 1,800 MW Gas-Fired Plant in WV). At that time, CPV was not prepared
Monday, a few days after the Environmental Protection Agency announced new rules that would effectively shut down most coal-burning power plants within 20 years, the Public Service Commission of West Virginia approved a siting certificate for a natural gas-burning power plant in Doddridge County. The plant would use carbon capture technology of the type that fits within the new EPA rules.
The PSC granted a siting certificate to Competitive Power Ventures to build a $3 billion combined-cycle natural gas power plant a few miles southeast of West Union.
Natural gas consumers can expect a 40% drop in home heating bills this winter, the West Virginia Public Service Commission recently confirmed. This, in its own