Large load · 15696 ENERGY ROAD, Proctor, WV
The Natrium plant near Proctor in Marshall County, West Virginia, on the Ohio River, is a chlor-alkali and derivatives complex that makes chlorine and caustic soda from salt brine, along with hydrogen, hydrochloric acid and calcium hypochlorite. Electrolysis plants of this kind run continuously on large amounts of electricity, and Natrium has its own on-site power plant, with a coal-fired history, permitted separately by the state. The site is held through Eagle Natrium LLC, a former PPG and Axiall asset that is now part of Westlake.
The U.S. Government bought the site in 1941 and began drilling the salt bed for the brine used to make chlorine and caustic soda. West Virginia DEP's 2017 engineering evaluation describes a plant that now also produces hydrogen, hydrochloric acid and calcium hypochlorite, and that has held air permits since 1974.
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