Rivesville Power Station

Rivesville Power Station is a power station owned and operated by the investor-owned electricity utility Monongahela Power Company.

The power station has an installed capacity of 142 megawatts and is located in Rivesville, West Virginia.

On February 8, 2012, FirstEnergy announced that its Monongahela Power Company (Mon Power) subsidiary would be retiring the plant by September 1, 2012. (More at Proposed coal unit closures below.)

Plant Data

 * Owner: Monongahela Power Company
 * Parent Company: Allegheny Energy
 * Plant Nameplate Capacity: 110 MW (Megawatts)
 * Units and In-Service Dates: 35 MW (1943), 75 MW (1951)
 * Location: 12 Jackson St., Rivesville, WV 26588
 * GPS Coordinates: 39.530611, -80.116694
 * Coal Consumption:
 * Coal Source:
 * Number of Employees:

Emissions Data

 * 2006 CO2 Emissions: 349,501 tons
 * 2006 SO2 Emissions:
 * 2006 SO2 Emissions per MWh:
 * 2006 NOx Emissions:
 * 2005 Mercury Emissions:

Proposed coal unit closures
On February 8, 2012, FirstEnergy announced that its Monongahela Power Company (Mon Power) subsidiary would be retiring three older coal-fired power plants located in West Virginia by September 1, 2012: Albright Power Station, Willow Island Power Station, and Rivesville Power Station. The total capacity of the regulated plants is 660 megawatts (MW), about 3 percent of FirstEnergy’s total regulated and competitive generation portfolio. Recently, the plants had served mostly as peaking facilities, generating around less than 1 percent of the electricity produced by FirstEnergy over the past three years. The company said the decision to close the plants was based on the EPA's Mercury and Air Toxics Standards (MATS) that were recently finalized, and other environmental regulations.

External Resources

 * Existing Electric Generating Units in the United States, 2005, Energy Information Administration, accessed Jan. 2009.
 * Environmental Integrity Project, "Dirty Kilowatts: America’s Most Polluting Power Plants", July 2007.
 * Facility Registry System, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, accessed Jan. 2009.
 * Carbon Monitoring for Action database, accessed Feb. 2009.

Related SourceWatch Articles

 * Existing U.S. Coal Plants
 * West Virginia and coal
 * Allegheny Energy
 * United States and coal
 * Global warming
 * Coal