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Pleasants Power Station

Pleasants County, United States

The 629th largest power station in the world

1.37 GW · Capacity

Pleasants Power Station is a 1.3-gigawatt (1, 300 MW) coal power plant located near Belmont, West Virginia, in Pleasants County, West Virginia. The plant is owned by Omnis Pleasants LLC and began operations in 1979. The power plant was the site of the Willow Island disaster in 1978.

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

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