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Grant Town Power Plant

Coal power plant · Marion County, West Virginia

Nameplate capacity
96 MW
Rank in West Virginia
#21
of 42 plants
In service since
1992
July 1992

Details

Primary fuel
Coal
Technology
Conventional Steam Coal
Operator
American Bituminous Power LP
County
Marion County
Generating units
1
Share of state capacity
0.60%
Rank among coal plants in West Virginia
#9 of 10
EIA plant code
10151

Generating units

Individual generating units at Grant Town Power Plant
UnitTechnologyNameplateSummerOnlineStatus
GEN1Conventional Steam Coal96 MW80 MW1992Operating

Nameplate is the maximum rated output; summer capacity is what the unit can reliably deliver on a hot day, which is typically lower.

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About this data

From EIA’s inventory of operable generators, May 2026 release. Capacity is nameplate — the maximum rated output of the equipment, not what the plant actually generates over a year, which depends on how often it runs. A 96 MW solar plant and a 96 MW nuclear plant have the same entry here and produce very different amounts of electricity.

“In service since” is the earliest in-service date among the units still listed, so a site rebuilt around newer equipment can read as younger than the site itself. All West Virginia power plants · What West Virginia actually generates