CHARLESTON, W.Va. — A Morgantown Energy Associates plant will be deactivated effective Jan. 1, 2020, according to The Dominion Post newspaper.
The plant on Beechhurst Avenue will go off the power grid but is expected to continue to provide steam heat to West Virginia University’s two Morgantown campuses, according to the newspaper.
The coal-fired plant opened in 1992 and generates about 50 megawatts of power. The power is then sold to Monongahela Power, which feeds it into the PJM grid. That’s the regional transmission organization that coordinates the movement of wholesale electricity among 13 states and the District of Columbia.
Speculation was that the plant is in line to be converted from coal-fired to gas-fired.