The project site is located approximately three miles south of Moundsville, West Virginia, between the Ohio River, WV Route 2 and the Moundsville Golf Course. Moundsville Power will be located on a former chemical manufacturing plant site that had been operated by various entities as a chemical production site since 1953. In addition to providing a positive reuse of this site, the project may stim
ulate additional economic development by attracting industrial development to the site to utilize the plant’s excess steam production and significant infrastructure upgrades. Moundsville Power will utilize a natural gas fueled electric generating station. The state-of-the-art, clean-burning station will consist of two combustion turbine generators (CTGs), connected to two heat recovery steam generators (HRSGs). The HRSGs harness exhaust heat from the CTGs to generate high-quality, superheated steam. The steam is generated into electricity in an environmentally friendly and efficient manner through a single steam turbine (ST). Moundsville Power will be able to utilize abundant West Virginia natural gas by interconnecting to an existing local natural gas pipeline infrastructure. By doing so, the project will generate enough electricity to power approximately 549,000 homes. Additionally, the power generated will be sold on the PJM Interconnection System (the grid) via AEP’s existing transmission lines, which are in close proximity to the site location.
