Form Energy’s new factory on the former historic Weirton Steel site is manufacturing cutting-edge batteries to help stabilize the electrical grid
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.
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.
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
Toyota West Virginia continues to implement carbon neutral practices and invest in renewable energy–including an agrivoltaic effort–to meet the company’s Toyota Environmental Challenge 2050: becoming carbon neutral by 2035.
Black Rock Wind Farm spans Grant and Mineral Counties in West Virginia. Its 23 wind turbines produce 115 megawatts of energy, enough to power 55,000 homes and save 298,500 metric tons of CO2 emissions. Black Rock sells energy to Toyota West Virginia and AEP Partners through power purchase agreements.
The Blake Solar Energy Facility is one of five solar farms/industrial solar projects developed and in operation or slated for Jefferson County, WV.
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