How big is Longview Power Plant?

Longview Power Plant has a reported capacity of 807.5 MW. Source: EIA Form 860.

What kind of plant is Longview Power Plant?

Longview Power Plant is a Conventional Steam Coal facility in Monongalia County, WV, participating in the PJM market.

Where is Longview Power Plant located?

Longview Power Plant is in Monongalia County, WV, inside the PJM balancing area.

Who operates Longview Power Plant?

Longview Power Plant is operated by Longview Power, LLC according to the EIA generator inventory. Reporting membership does not by itself establish ultimate ownership.

How much electricity does Longview Power Plant generate?

Longview Power Plant reported 4,958.1 GWh over the twelve months to 2026-06. Figures are net generation as filed to EIA-923.

How does Longview Power Plant compare to other plants?

By capacity, Longview Power Plant ranks #91 of 206 operating plants of the same technology nationally. It ranks #8 of 9 in WV.

Longview Power Plant — 808 MW coal plant, WV

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Overview

Reported capacity: 807.5 MW
EIA-reported nameplate capacity; other nameplate and seasonal ratings may differ.
Technology: Conventional Steam Coal
Primary generation technology.
Registry anchor: Plant 56671
Longview Power, LLC · Monongalia County · PJM
Operating status: Operating
Longview Power Plant is currently operating; a closure or retirement is listed for 2034.
Commercial operation: December 2011
Best-supported operating milestone.

Profile

Operating status: Longview Power Plant is currently operating; a closure or retirement is listed for 2034.
Grid role: Baseload generation that the owner describes as essential to grid stability.
Physical build: One operational conventional-steam coal generating unit, MKA01, at Longview Power Plant: 807.5 MW nameplate and 710 MW summer/winter capacity. The installed train comprises one Foster Wheeler advanced-supercritical Benson boiler rated at approximately 700 MW net, one Siemens steam-turbine/generator set, six Foster Wheeler MBF pulverizers, 36 low-NOx burners, 16 overfire-air ports, SCR, wet FGD, and a pulse-jet fabric filter. Boiler-cleaning equipment includes 52 Diamond Power IR sootblowers, 70 Diamond Power long-retractable IK sootblowers, and four air-heater sootblowers. Babcock & Wilcox Titanium intelligent sootblowing and FocalPoint optimization are installed; Emerson replaced the original Siemens T3000 controls with a plant-wide Ovation system.

Structured profile

Reported capacity: 807.5 MW
Conventional Steam Coal
Commercial operation: December 2011
Operating status: operating
Longview Power Plant is currently operating; a closure or retirement is listed for 2034.
Retirement: 2034
Longview Power Plant is currently operating; a closure or retirement is listed for 2034.
Location: Monongalia County

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Units and generators

Operating generator records and technology attributes reported through EIA-860.

Generator	Capacity	Technology	Operation	Status
MKA01	807.5 MW 710 MW summer	Conventional Steam Coal Bituminous Coal · ST	Dec 2011	Operating

Performance

Monthly EIA generation history and recent market-resource behavior where linked telemetry is available.

Peer context

Technology capacity: 807.5 MW; Conventional Steam Coal
National rank: #91; of 206 operating peers
WV rank: #8; of 9 operating peers

Monthly generation

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Latest 12 months

4.96 TWh

Reported net generation

Latest report

Jun 2026

EIA-923 monthly filing

2025 capacity factor

65.5%

Using current reported nameplate capacity

Grid and market context

Deterministic links to ERCOT market resources, price records, outage disclosures, queue records, and nearby infrastructure. Candidate joins remain labeled until corroborated.

Nearby substations

HIFLD infrastructure inventory

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Commercial, land, and environmental record

Source-backed project transactions, agreements, land records, permits, and environmental disclosures. Portfolio and adjacent-project facts remain explicitly scoped.

Financing

Debt Restructuring

Date not disclosed

Longview Power's existing $1.1 billion credit agreement and related financing documents were amended and restated to increase flexibility, extend certain term-loan and revolver maturities, and add term-loan, revolver, and letter-of-credit commitments.

First Reserve Corporation · Longview Power LLC

The Energy and Infrastructure Group

Acquisition

2015

Longview emerged from bankruptcy restructuring in 2015 and was acquired by Kohlberg Kravis Roberts, Centerbridge Capital, and other partners through debt-for-equity restructuring. No acquisition consideration was disclosed.

Longview Power LLC · Kohlberg Kravis Roberts · Centerbridge Capital

Longview Plant - Global Energy Monitor

Bankruptcy Restructuring And Ownership Change

Apr 14, 2020

Under Longview's prepackaged Chapter 11 plan, more than 85% of senior secured lenders supported a transition of ownership to those lenders. The plan provided a $40 million new-money exit facility and stated that the senior secured lenders would become the owners.

$40.0MLongview Power LLC · Senior secured lenders

Longview Power Files Prepackaged Chapter 11 To Facilitate Ownership Change

Transactions and agreements

Acquisition Announcement

Jul 2026

American Electric Power announced an agreement to purchase the 710 MW coal-fired Longview Power Plant in Monongalia County for an undisclosed price. The acquisition was described separately from the adjacent Mountain State Clean Energy natural-gas development site.

American Electric Power · Longview Power LLC

AEP buys Maidsville coal-fired plant, acquires permits for natural gas expansion on the site - WV MetroNews

Land and environmental record

Acid Rain Permit

Jan 1, 2014

R33-56671-2018-2; effective January 1, 2014 – December 31, 2018. Plant not defined as coal-fired utility unit under 40 CFR Part 76.

WVDEP identified Longview Power, operator Longview Power LLC, and ORIS code 56671 under this historical permit. The plant was not defined as a coal-fired utility unit under the cited Part 76 provision.

Microsoft Word - R33-56671-2018-2 Pre-Draft.doc

Air-Permit Modification Application

Jan 22, 2026

NSR modification application R14-0024H received January 22, 2026

WVDEP's current NSR application listing shows Longview Power LLC/Longview Power, facility ID 061-00134, as a modification application received January 22, 2026. The retrieved record establishes application status, not final issuance.

NSR Permit Applications

Cooling-Tower Air Permit Condition

Sep 19, 2023

Mechanical-draft cooling tower drift control: 0.002% drift eliminator or equivalent. PM/PM10 limits: 4.1 lb/hr and 13.7 tons/year.

The Title V permit identifies the cooling-tower drift-control requirement and associated PM/PM10 limits. It also requires monitoring of cooling-water flow and either total dissolved solids or specific conductivity.

TitleV-Permit

NPDES Wastewater Permit Status

2016

WV0116238; zero-discharge facility

EPA's ECHO state-comments record identifies WV0116238 as the permit for Longview Power LLC and describes the facility as a megawatt coal-fired power plant with zero discharge and no limits associated with the permit.

State Comments on Frozen Data - 2016 | ECHO | US EPA

Parcel And Ownership Records

2025

Five Longview Power LLC deeded parcels: 37.603 ac (PID 31-03-0007-0010-0002; Fort Martin); 16.250 ac (PID 31-03-0007-0018-0000; Crafts Run); 13.324 ac (PID 31-03-0007-0012-0000; Robinson Run); 24.729 ac (PID 31-03-0013-0015-0000; Robinson Run flood area); 0.177 ac (PID 31-03-013A-0029-0000)

Monongalia County/West Virginia assessment records list Longview Power LLC as owner. Documented parcels total 92.083 deeded acres. This is a documented-parcel subtotal, not a verified total plant-site acreage, because available records do not establish these are every parcel associated with the generating station.

WV Real Estate Assessment Data

Related parties and identifiers

Parties, market resources, and identifiers tied to this asset, with owner, operator, developer, EPC, compliance provider, and interconnecting entity roles kept separate.

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Timeline and sources

Project milestones and public references behind the asset profile.

Project timeline

2004
2004
Project ConceptLongview Po...
The Longview plant concept was developed as a supercritical coal project for the PJM market.
Jan 2007
Jan 2007
Construction Began

Longview Power Plant