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Gas Plant or Coal’s Last Stand | Charleston News
Mon Power is racing to get a $2.4 billion natural gas plant approved, arguing it’s essential to meet the surge in demand from new data centers—and that customers won’t pay more long-term, since data centers will reimburse them. But the United Mine Workers Union warns this move could accelerate the shutdown of coal plants, devastating West Virginia’s coal industry and signaling the end of thermal coal in the state, despite still-vast coal reserves. The Public Service Commission is weighing the competing visions—future tech needs versus coal’s legacy—before making a decision by March. Listen in…
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