Laurel Mountain Hybrid
Wind power plant · Barbour County, West Virginia
Details
- Primary fuel
- Wind
- Technology
- Onshore Wind Turbine
- Operator
- AES Distributed Energy
- County
- Barbour County
- Generating units
- 1
- Share of state capacity
- 0.61%
- Rank among wind plants in West Virginia
- #5 of 8
- EIA plant code
- 57447
Generating units
| Unit | Technology | Nameplate | Summer | Online | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Onshore Wind Turbine | 98 MW | 98 MW | 2011 | Operating |
Nameplate is the maximum rated output; summer capacity is what the unit can reliably deliver on a hot day, which is typically lower.
Similarly sized plants in West Virginia
| Hawks Nest Hydro | Hydro | 102 MW |
| Beech Ridge Energy LLC | Wind | 101 MW |
| Blake Solar Plant | Solar | 96 MW |
| Grant Town Power Plant | Coal | 96 MW |
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 98 MW solar plant and a 98 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