Form Energy’s new factory on the former historic Weirton Steel site is manufacturing cutting-edge batteries to help stabilize the electrical grid
Shepherd University’s Agricultural Innovation Center at Tabler Farm, a demonstration farm where students learn and implement sustainable agriculture practices, hosts a 6-kilowatt solar array.
The 189 solar panels on Shepherd University’s Scarborough Library rooftop was the largest solar installation among West Virginia nonprofit organizations when installed in 2019. The panels generate 60 kilowatts of power per year and promise a savings of approximately $120,000 over the system’s lifetime.
Operations are underway at Mon Power and Potomac Edison’s second utility-scale solar site in West Virginia as of October 2024. Approximately 14,000 solar panels are producing up to 5.5 megawatts of renewable electricity on company-owned property in Rivesville, WV (Marion County).
The town of Harpers Ferry, WV signed an agreement with FirstEnergy Corp. subsidiaries Mon Power and Potomac Edison to purchase solar energy from their proposed solar facility to power 100 percent of the town’s streetlight and town hall energy requirements.
Morgantown’s National Energy Technology Lab’s first-of-its-kind commitment to purchase 100 percent of its electricity from the Fort Martin solar facility helped make the facility’s construction possible.
Mon Power’s Fort Martin solar plant, West Virginia’s largest solar generation facility to date, with 50,000 solar panels generating 19 megawatts of electricity, came online January 4, 2024.
Almost 100 electric buses manufactured in West Virginia are being used by school districts in approximately 20 WV counties as a result of West Virginia’s 2022 economic partnership with GreenPower Motor Company, making West Virginia a leading state in all-electric school bus deployment on a per capita basis.
WV Climate Link is an online tool and educational resource for exploring and learning about West Virginia’s changing climate and what it means for the state’s communities, ecosystems and economies.
Toyota West Virginia is leading the way in meeting Toyota North America’s plan for an electrified future by producing a new hybrid transaxel designed for hybrid electric vehicles
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