{"id":896,"date":"2026-02-19T13:28:49","date_gmt":"2026-02-19T13:28:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/weathernuthaven.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/19\/new-1-2-gw-gas-fired-plant-planned-in-wv-three-solar-projects-also-announced\/"},"modified":"2026-02-19T13:28:49","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T13:28:49","slug":"new-1-2-gw-gas-fired-plant-planned-in-wv-three-solar-projects-also-announced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/weathernuthaven.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/19\/new-1-2-gw-gas-fired-plant-planned-in-wv-three-solar-projects-also-announced\/","title":{"rendered":"New 1.2-GW Gas-Fired Plant Planned in WV; Three Solar Projects Also Announced"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two subsidiaries of FirstEnergy Corp. announced plans to build a new 1,200-MW natural gas-fired power plant on land adjacent to the companies&#8217; coal-fired Fort Martin Power Station in West Virginia. Mon Power and Potomac Edison also want to build three new solar farms on reclaimed industrial and mining land. <\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/www.powermag.com\/new-1-2-gw-gas-fired-plant-planned-in-wv-three-solar-projects-also-announced\/\">New 1.2-GW Gas-Fired Plant Planned in WV; Three Solar Projects Also Announced<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.powermag.com\">POWER Magazine<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"774\" height=\"532\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image lazyload\" alt=\"Fort Martin Power Station\" decoding=\"async\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 774px) 100vw, 774px\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.powermag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/screenshot-2024-10-16-at-51331pm.png\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.powermag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/screenshot-2024-10-16-at-51331pm.png 774w, https:\/\/www.powermag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/screenshot-2024-10-16-at-51331pm-300x206.png 300w, https:\/\/www.powermag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/screenshot-2024-10-16-at-51331pm-768x528.png 768w\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two subsidiaries of FirstEnergy Corp. announced plans to build a new 1,200-MW natural gas-fired power plant on land adjacent to the companies&#8217; coal-fired Fort Martin Power Station in West Virginia. Mo<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-896","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/weathernuthaven.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/896","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/weathernuthaven.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/weathernuthaven.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weathernuthaven.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=896"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/weathernuthaven.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/896\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/weathernuthaven.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weathernuthaven.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weathernuthaven.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}