Coal power plant in West Virginia, United States of America. Approximate location 39.7079, -79.959.
CoalWest VirginiaUnited States of AmericaPre ConstructionCO₂ measured
Longview Power Plant is a 807.5 MW coal power station in West Virginia, United States of America. It ranks #823 of 10,938 United States of America power plants by installed capacity. Its annual emissions of 3,499,945 t CO₂/yr (US EPA GHGRP) are equivalent to about 816k cars driven for a year. In context, coal supplies about 16.3% of United States of America's electricity; the national grid averages 384 gCO₂/kWh (43.0% low-carbon) (2025).
Plant data: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0), id USA0056671.
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capacity: GEM · 2026 · L100000104255; fuel: WRI GPPD
At 807.5 MW, Longview Power Plant is well above the median coal plant in United States of America (558 MW). Its current lifecycle status is “Pre Construction” — so it is not yet, or no longer, generating at full output. Coal plants burn pulverised coal to raise high-pressure steam for a turbine; they run as baseload but are the most carbon-intensive mainstream source and the first targeted for retirement or efficiency retrofits.
Capacity comparison computed from the WRI Global Power Plant Database; fuel-type context is general engineering background.
This facility's annual emissions are roughly equivalent to:
Equivalencies via US EPA Greenhouse Gas Equivalencies; emissions per US EPA GHGRP (measured for US EPA/EU ETS, modelled for Climate TRACE).
The #286 largest coal power plant of 802 in United States of America by capacity.
United States of America has 802 coal power plants in this dataset, together about 621,194 MW of capacity.
Coordinates 39.7079, -79.959 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.
Longview Power Plant is a 807.5 MW coal power plant in West Virginia, United States of America, Pre Construction 2012.
Longview Power Plant has measured emissions of about 3,499,945 tonnes of CO₂ per year (US EPA GHGRP).
