Blackstone Greenlights $1.2B West Virginia 600Mw Gas Plant

MIAMI, FL (DTN) — Blackstone Energy Transition Partners announced Friday (11/14) it was moving ahead to build a $1.2 billion, 600-megawatt gas-fired power plant in West Virginia to meet surging power demand in the mid-Atlantic region.
The Wolf Summit Energy plant will provide power to the Old Dominion Electric Cooperative, which serves about 1.5 million customers across Virginia, Maryland and Delaware, Blackstone said in a news release.
It will be West Virgina’s first combined-cycle natural gas power plant, intended to help meet fast-growing electricity needs driven by data-center expansion and AI-related power consumption.
GE Vernova will supply a 7HA.02 turbine for the power generation.  
The plant was originally proposed in 2015 and shelved in 2021, before being revived by Blackstone, which secured a final investment decision last week to commence construction.