FirstEnergy Plan Calls for New Gas-Fired Plant, Continued Coal-Fired Generation

FirstEnergy Corp. has submitted a plan to build a new 1,200-MW natural gas-fired combined-cycle power plant to serve customers in West Virginia. The company recently filed an Integrated Resource Plan (IRP) with state regulators that also calls for keeping two major coal-fired power plants in West Virginia operating at least through the next decade. FirstEnergy, headquartered in Akron, Ohio, through subsidiaries Mon Power and Potomac Edison said the new gas-fired power station would be operational around 20 ...