Longview Plant
{{#badges: CoalSwarm|Navbar-WestVirginiacoal}} Longview Plant is a 808-megawatt (MW) supercritical coal plant in Maidsville, West Virginia.
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Background
The Prevention of Significant Deterioration (PSD) permit was issued by the West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection. In 2004, the Sierra Club filed an appeal against the air permit.[1] In Jan. 2007, final permits for the project were approved and the construction began.[2] On Feb. 13, 2007, a group including the Fort Martin Community Association and the Forks of Cheat Forest Property Owners Association filed a legal complaint against Longview Power, on the grounds that the project’s air permit expired in 2005.
On April 10, 2011, it was reported that the plant would start burning coal that month, making it the first new coal-fired power plant to start up in West Virginia in 18 years (since a 96-megawatt Grant Town Power Plant in 1992). Longview’s coal will come from an adjacent Mepco mine, in Pennsylvania. Longview is expected to burn about 2 million tons of coal per year, the majority from Mepco. The plant will employ 97 people.[3]
Longview Power hired a consulting firm in February 2010 to study the applicability of carbon capture and storage at the plant. The results of the study have not been released, and it appears that the facility will not employ CCS technology.[4]
Costs and company restructuring
The Longview Power project cost approximately $2.2 billion.[5] After the plant began operation in 2011, construction defects and competition from natural gas in the power markets lead to the company’s Chapter 11 bankruptcy in 2013. In early 2015 the company reached a settlement of all construction claims, and two of its major contractors agreed to remediate plant defects at their own expense.[6] Longview emerged from a bankruptcy restructuring in 2015.[7]
Coal supply
Longview gets most of its coal via a mine in Greene County, Pa., which transports the coal to the plant on a 4.5-mile conveyor belt. The mine is owned by affiliated company Mepco LLC.[7]
Project Details
Sponsor: Longview Power
Location: Maidsville, WV
Coordinates: 39.707799,-79.958217
Capacity: 808 MW[8]
Type: Supercritical
In Service: 2011
Status: Operating
Financing
- First Reserve Corporation[2]
Citizen Groups
- Citizens for Alternatives to Longview Power
- West Virginia Sierra Club, Karen Grubb, kgrubb [at] fairmontstate.edu
- Appalachian Voices, outreach [at] appvoices.org
- West Virginia Environmental Council, Chuck Wyrostok, wyro [at] appalight.com
- Morgantown Citizens for Responsible Development, crdmorgantown [at] yahoo.com
Resources
References
- ↑ Jim Kotcon, “Sierra Club Appeals Air Pollution Permit for Longview Power Plant,” Mountain State Sierran, May 2004.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 GenPower website, accessed January 2008
- ↑ "Longview, First New W.Va. Coal Plant in 18 Years, Fires Up This Month" The Daily Journal, April 10, 2011.
- ↑ "Stopping the Coal Rush" Sierra Club, accessed November 2011.
- ↑ "Longview Wins Approval to Exit Chapter 11 Protection" (March 16, 2015).
- ↑ "Longview Wins Approval to Exit Chapter 11 Protection" (March 16, 2015).
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 "With Perry's backing, W.Va. power plant aims to prove 'clean coal' isn't a myth," SNL, July 13, 2017
- ↑ Form EIA-860, US Energy Information Administration, 2012
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External links
- "Reuse of Water From Underground Mines for Power Generation: Longview Plant and Pennsylvania water reuse" WV Mining Task proceedings, April 19, 2006.
- "Tracking New Coal-Fired Power Plants", National Energy Technology Lab, May 1, 2007, page 21. (PDF file)
