PLEASANTS COUNTY, WV (LOOTPRESS) – The 1,300 MW Pleasants Power Station in Pleasants County, WV generates about 5 million megawatt hours of reliable and inexpensive electricity from 3 million tons of West Virginia coal per year.
The plant has a total economic impact of $374 million per year and a direct payroll of 161 direct jobs and creates another 226 other jobs throughout the economy for total wages of $54 million dollars.