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Longview Power Plant is the cleanest, most efficient coal-fired power plant in the 13-state PJM Interconnection and one of the most efficient in the United States,[1][2] producing 700 net megawatts of electric power. Located near Morgantown, West Virginia, Longview has a heat rate of 8,700 Btu/kwh, surpassing that of other comparable coal-fired power plants in the country. Longview’s advanced supercritical boiler, low cost fuel, minimal water usage and other efficiencies combine to produce the lowest cost of dispatch (delivery of electricity) of any coal-fired plant in the region.[3]
The Longview Power plant includes a new air pollution control system that results in emissions that are among the lowest in the nation for coal plants.[4] In addition, Longview emits less CO2 than most other coal plants because of its fuel efficiency.[5]
The Longview Power plant is fully integrated with its fuel source, utilizing "run-of-mine" coal, and thus avoiding the added cost and environmental impacts of fuel preparation. Mepco, an affiliated fuel supplier, transports coal from its underground mine to Longview by a 4.5 mile conveyor that minimizes transportation costs and avoids the local impacts of trucking coal.[6]
The Longview Power project cost approximately $2.2 billion–the largest private investment in West Virginia’s history.[7] After the plant began operations in 2011, construction defects and major changes in the power markets lead to the company’s Chapter 11 bankruptcy in 2013. In early 2015 the company reached a comprehensive settlement of all construction claims, and two of its major contractors agreed to remediate plant defects at their own expense.[8] As a result, Longview Power emerged from bankruptcy in April 2015 with the full remediation of the plant underway and new ownership led by private equity firms KKR, Centerbridge, Ascribe, and Third Avenue.[9]
The $120 million in improvements by Longview and its contractors has turned the facility into "the most efficient coal-fired power plant in the U.S.," as assessed by a key industry magazine, POWER, which awarded Longview its 2016 Reinvention Award.
USEPA photo by Eric Vance
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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Longview Power Plant is the cleanest, most efficient coal-fired power plant in the 13-state PJM Interconnection and one of the most efficient in the United States,[1][2] producing 700 net megawatts of electric power. Located near Morgantown, West Virginia, Longview has a heat rate of 8,700 Btu/kwh, surpassing that of other comparable coal-fired power plants in the country. Longview’s advanced supercritical boiler, low cost fuel, minimal water usage and other efficiencies combine to produce the lowest cost of dispatch (delivery of electricity) of any coal-fired plant in the region.[3]
The Longview Power plant includes a new air pollution control system that results in emissions that are among the lowest in the nation for coal plants.[4] In addition, Longview emits less CO2 than most other coal plants because of its fuel efficiency.[5]
The Longview Power plant is fully integrated with its fuel source, utilizing "run-of-mine" coal, and thus avoiding the added cost and environmental impacts of fuel preparation. Mepco, an affiliated fuel supplier, transports coal from its underground mine to Longview by a 4.5 mile conveyor that minimizes transportation costs and avoids the local impacts of trucking coal.[6]
The Longview Power project cost approximately $2.2 billion–the largest private investment in West Virginia’s history.[7] After the plant began operations in 2011, construction defects and major changes in the power markets lead to the company’s Chapter 11 bankruptcy in 2013. In early 2015 the company reached a comprehensive settlement of all construction claims, and two of its major contractors agreed to remediate plant defects at their own expense.[8] As a result, Longview Power emerged from bankruptcy in April 2015 with the full remediation of the plant underway and new ownership led by private equity firms KKR, Centerbridge, Ascribe, and Third Avenue.[9]
The $120 million in improvements by Longview and its contractors has turned the facility into "the most efficient coal-fired power plant in the U.S.," as assessed by a key industry magazine, POWER, which awarded Longview its 2016 Reinvention Award.
USEPA photo by Eric Vance