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Patrick Morrisey

Patrick Morrisey

Governor of West Virginia

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Notable Quotes

"We want to be the single best place in America for data centers to come." — Governor's Energy Summit, November 2025

Stories

America's grid race: Building power for the AI era

Built World

Inaugurated January 2025

West Virginia has no base-load natural gas power plants online. That's about to change. Governor Patrick Morrisey announced that Calpine, a Constellation Energy subsidiary, will build a $1 billion, 500-megawatt gas plant in Marshall County—part of $4.2 billion in energy investments the state has attracted in just four weeks. The goal: transform a coal-dependent economy into what Morrisey calls 'the battery of the East Coast.'

Updated Jan 24