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Covington Facility — Power plant · Biomass · WESTROCK CO
  • Bioenergy
  • Operating
  • 10 · 100 · 1,000 MW

Covington Facility

Power plant · Biomass

Key facts

Power plant · Biomassran 51% of 2025 Operating
Capacity
Capacity: sourceEIA-860M · Open licenseMW
Commissioned
1951
Net generation, 2025
725,118 MWh
Grid
138 kV to Virginia Electric & Power Co (PJM)
Location
Alleghany County, Virginia
Operated by
Westrock COSourceEIA-860M Preliminary Monthly Electric Generator Inventory

Output

Net generation MWh by year, 2002 to 2026
Fuel burned MMBtu by year, 2002 to 2026
  • Gas
  • Coal
  • Oil
  • Biomass and waste

Operations detail

Details

Who’s behind it

Owner
Westrock COSource100.0%, EPA Greenhouse Gas Reporting Program — facility register with parent-company shares (Envirofacts pub_dim_facility; FLIGHT), as of 31 Dec 2023

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Technology
Biomass source: “Wood/Wood Waste Biomass”
Age
75 years since 1951
All 6 attributes from EIA-860M Preliminary Monthly Electric Generator Inventory
AttributeValue
Gem
Parents
Name
Smurfit Westrock PLC
Share pct
100
Gem entity id
E100001011030
Unit ids
G100000201599, G100000201600
Location id
L100000201335
Eia plant ids
50900
EPA greenhouse gas reporting (GHGRP)
EPA FRS ID
110000870013
Subparts reported
AA, C, TT
NAICS code
322130
Subpart PP (CO2 supply)
No
Subpart RR (geologic sequestration)
No
Subpart UU (CO2 injection)
No
Reporting year
2023
GHGRP facility ID
1000256
Fuel burned (MMBtu), 202527,553,249
Capacity factor, 20250.514
Net generation (MWh), 2025725,118.0
Balancing authority codePJM
Data notes (1)
  • Heat rate (Btu/kWh), 2025 not shown: computed 37998.3 outside 5000-30000 Btu/kWh

Retirement

EIA-860M September 2026StatusSome generators have retired; the rest of the plant is still in service. As of EIA-860M for September 2026.
Capacity retired
26.5 MW
Generators retired
3
Capacity still in service
160.9 MW
GeneratorTechnologyNameplateStateDate
GEN6Wood/Wood Waste Biomass5.5 MWRetiredJanuary 2009
GEN1Conventional Steam Coal10.5 MWRetiredOctober 2013
GEN2Conventional Steam Coal10.5 MWRetiredDecember 2013
By technology
TechnologyRetiredScheduled to retire
Conventional Steam Coal21 MW
Wood/Wood Waste Biomass5.5 MW

Grid

EIA-860 2025Grid fieldsAs the plant reported them to EIA-860 for 2025 (Schedule 2).
Grid voltage at the plant
138 kV
Transmission or distribution system owner
Virginia Electric & Power Co
Balancing authority
PJM Interconnection, LLC
NERC region
SERC
Transmission lines within 25 km (10)
Can the connection be reused?

A plant that retires usually leaves its substation, transmission connection and interconnection agreement behind, and those may be reusable by a new project at the same site. FERC Order No. 845 lets an interconnection customer use surplus interconnection service at an existing site, and some transmission providers' tariffs let a replacement resource take over a retiring unit's interconnection service, usually within a set time after the retirement. Whether any such right still exists here, who holds it and on what terms depends on the owner, the transmission provider and timing; this page does not establish any of that.

Timeline

  • Stated Unit GEN2 scheduled to retire, 10.5 MW · EIA-860M
  • Stated Unit GEN1 scheduled to retire, 10.5 MW · EIA-860M
  • Stated Unit GEN6 scheduled to retire, 5.5 MW · EIA-860M
  • In service · EIA-860M

Sources

6 sources

Sources EIA-860M · GEM · LBNL · EIA · EIA-860M Preliminary Monthly Electric Generator Inventory · EPA Greenhouse Gas Reporting Program — facility register with parent-company shares (Envirofacts pub_dim_facility; FLIGHT)

Sources

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