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Mitchell (WV)
Power plant · Coal
Key facts
Power plant · Coalran 28% of 2025 Operating- Capacity
- Capacity: sourceEIA-860M · Open licenseMW
- Commissioned
- 1971
- Net generation, 2025
- 3,950,432 MWh
- Grid
- 765 kV to Ohio Power Co (PJM)
- Location
- Marshall County, West Virginia
- Operated by
- Kentucky Power Co
Output
- Coal
- Oil
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- Technology
- Coal source: “Conventional Steam Coal”
- Age
- 55 years since 1971
- Unused energy
- 10,351 GWh 2025Unused energyA lead, not a guarantee: MW × hours × (1 − capacity factor) for the latest year (EIA-923), gas, coal and oil plants only. Air-permit run-hour caps, heat rate (cost to run) and capacity-market or reliability obligations can rule it out.
- Heat rate
- 10,642 Btu/kWh 2025
All 8 attributes from EIA-860M Preliminary Monthly Electric Generator Inventory
| Attribute | Value |
|---|---|
| Gem |
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| Grid |
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| EPA greenhouse gas reporting (GHGRP) |
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| Fuel burned (MMBtu), 2025 | 42,041,944 |
| Capacity factor, 2025 | 0.276 |
| Heat rate (Btu/kWh), 2025 | 10,642.4 |
| Net generation (MWh), 2025 | 3,950,432.0 |
| Balancing authority code | PJM |
Ownership
3 companies4| Company | Role | Share | As of | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kentucky Power Co | Operator | EIA-860M | ||
| AMERICAN ELECTRIC POWER CO INC | Owner | 100.0% | 31 Dec 2023 | EPA GHGRP |
| Wheeling Power Co | Owner | 50.0% | 31 Dec 2025 | EIA-860 |
| Kentucky Power Co | Owner | 50.0% | 31 Dec 2025 | EIA-860 |
Timeline
- In service · EIA-860M
Sources
6 sourcesSources EIA-860M · GEM · EIA · EIA-860M Preliminary Monthly Electric Generator Inventory · EPA Greenhouse Gas Reporting Program — facility register with parent-company shares (Envirofacts pub_dim_facility; FLIGHT) · EIA-860 Annual Electric Generator Report — Schedule 4 Owner (ownership shares per generator), plus Plant/Generator schedules
Sources
- EIA-860M Preliminary Monthly Electric Generator Inventory
- Global Energy Monitor — Global Integrated Power Tracker (unit-level power plants, eight technologies, all statuses)Global Integrated Power Tracker, Global Energy Monitor, September 2026 release (https://globalenergymonitor.org/projects/global-integrated-power-tracker), CC BY 4.0. Modified by Inframation: TransitionZero-sourced rows removed; statuses and technologies mapped to Inframation's vocabulary; figures aggregated. Copyright © Global Energy Monitor. Global Integrated Power Tracker, September 2026 release. Distributed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
- EIA Open Data bulk file — Electricity (ELEC.zip; monthly plant net generation and fuel consumption since 2001)Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration, Electricity bulk data (Form EIA-923 monthly plant series)
- EIA-860M Preliminary Monthly Electric Generator Inventory
- EPA Greenhouse Gas Reporting Program — facility register with parent-company shares (Envirofacts pub_dim_facility; FLIGHT)
- EIA-860 Annual Electric Generator Report — Schedule 4 Owner (ownership shares per generator), plus Plant/Generator schedules
Around this plant
Nearby
within 25 km| Project | Kind | Away | MW |
|---|---|---|---|
| Moundsville Power Postponed | Gas, combined cycle | 8.4 km | 712.6 |