Published: September 24, 2020 |

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Stephen Nelson.
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Stephen Nelson has been promoted to the Chief Executive Officer of Longview Power, LLC effective September 1, 2020.

Nelson came to Longview Power in 2014 as Senior Vice President responsible for designing and managing the rehabilitation of the 710 MW supercritical coal fired plant that was completed the following year. Next, Nelson was named Chief Operating Officer, of Longview Power, LLC.

Nelson has over 40 years of experience in power plant operations including assignments with Sacramento Utility District, Babcock & Wilcox, Pacific Gas and Electric, PPII-Montana, Aptech Engineering Services and Black & Veatch.

Mr. Nelson stated that, “This is an exciting and challenging time to take the reins at Longview Power. Because other states have subsidized their preferred sources of electricity generation, such as renewables and nuclear power, market prices have been distorted and not supported coal generation,” Nelson said,”Coal provides the resiliency and reliability that renewables and natural gas cannot provide. West Virginia needs to recognize that unless it takes steps to support coal generation, its highly reliable coal generation fleet and the many coal mining jobs that produce that coal may soon disappear. The Longview coal plant has state of the art technology and a world class plant staff able to achieve the highest reliability at very low cost, but the plant has gone through two bankruptcies, in large part due to the energy markets.”

“The Company recognizes that West Virginia needs to use all of its natural resources and to that end has substantially completed the development of a cutting edge technology 1250 MW combined cycle gas fired turbine generation facility and a solar facility adjacent to the coal plant. The CCGT and solar facility received final siting certificates from the West Virginia Public Service Commission in April, and the gas plant is in the final stages for an air permit and interconnection agreement from PJM,” Nelson said,”These facilities will utilize abundant local natural resources to produce low cost energy for the State for years to come.”

The Longview Power, LLC leadership team includes CFO, Eric Cada, Chief Commercial Officer Randy Gillespie and CEO & Chairman, Jeff Keffer.

Source: WAJR

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