A siting certificate for a gas-turbine power plant was approved on April 29 by the Public Service Commission of West Virginia.
A Commission staff memo estimated the total investment in construction and the facilities at $3.3 billion.
CPV Shay LLC filed a petition on December 1, 2023, for development of the wholesale electric generating facility and a high-voltage electric transmission line on 54 acres of a 230-acre parcel.
The application proposed a 2,060-megawatt natural gas-fired combined cycle gas turbine power generating facility.
The transmission system is a 9-mile, 500-kilovolt high-voltage line to run northeast to the Flint Run substation, which is owned by Monongahela Power Co.
The company said it would “deploy three advanced-class gas turbines, each with a high efficiency secondary cycle steam turbine system.”
It said the plant also may incorporate an integrated carbon capture facility to be operated as an affiliate of Shay.
Construction is to begin in the fourth quarter of 2025.
