The US power utility FirstEnergy has unveiled plans to either sell or deactivate and shut down the 1,300 MW coal-fired Pleasants Power Station in Willow Island, West Virginia (United States) in January 2019 after failing to obtain regulatory approval for the sale of the facility. The sale plan was submitted in March 2017 by FirstEnergy's affiliate Mon Power but the US Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) rejected the proposal in January 2018.
The facility has been in operation for nearly 40 years and includes two coal-fired units of 650 MW each, completed at a cost of US$677m. The sale fits into a broader plan: in 2016, FirstEnergy announced the sale or closure of 2,471 MW of power generation operated in Ohio, Pennsylvania and Virginia. Once the decommissioning of the Pleasants power plant is done, FirstEnergy will own 14,795 MW of power generation capacity across several US States (Ohio, Pennsylvania, West Virginia, New Jersey, Virginia and Illinois).
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