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FirstEnergy Fort Martin Power Station

Monongalia County, United States

The 804th largest power station in the world

1.15 GW · Capacity

Fort Martin Power Station is a coal-fired power station on the Monongahela River at Fort Martin, near Maidsville, West Virginia. It is owned and operated by Monongahela Power Company, a subsidiary of FirstEnergy. The station's two units have a combined nameplate capacity of 1,152 megawatts (MW) and a net summer capacity of 1,098 MW. The two units were started in the late 1960s and have been described as “ageing”. A new gas-fired plant has been proposed nearby.

Power station data from Wikidata (CC0). Summary from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA).

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