Power Plants in West Virginia

West Virginia's power sector in numbers

Bywatts maps 31 operating power plants with 15.4 GW of nameplate capacity in West Virginia. Coal leads with 81% of that capacity across 10 plants, followed by Natural Gas (6%) and Wind (4%). The inventory also includes 12 plants (1.8 GW) that EIA-860 lists as retired, the largest being KAMMER (713 MW, retired 2015).

The largest operating plants are JOHN E AMOS (2,933 MW, Coal, APPALACHIAN POWER CO), FIRSTENERGY HARRISON POWER STATION (2,052 MW, Coal, ALLEGHENY ENERGY SUPPLY CO LLC) and MT STORM (1,681 MW, Coal, VIRGINIA ELECTRIC & POWER CO).

Of the 31 operating plants with a recorded commissioning year, 11 came online in 2000 or later and 5 in 2010 or later; the busiest decade for new capacity was the 1970s (8.0 GW).

The largest operators by operating capacity are APPALACHIAN POWER CO (6 plants, 4.8 GW), ALLEGHENY ENERGY SUPPLY CO LLC (5 plants, 3.4 GW) and VIRGINIA ELECTRIC & POWER CO (1 plant, 1.7 GW).

Retail electricity sales in West Virginia reached 33.7 TWh in 2025, up 4.3% over ten years and up 2.1% year on year; residential customers took 33.1% of it. The average retail price across all sectors was 11.40 cents per kWh, up 40.5% since 2015.

The database also maps 86 named substations (12 of the 13 with a recorded voltage are rated 345 kV or above), no data centers, 8 solar installers and 6 solar companies in West Virginia.

Operating capacity by fuel

Retail electricity sales

Sources: HIFLD power-plant inventory (capacity, fuel, operator), EIA-860 (commissioning year, retirements, operable capacity), EIA retail sales and revenue series through January 2026. Counts are of plants Bywatts lists, not every generator in the state.