Power plant · Virginia, United States

Multitrade of Pittsylvania LP Power Plant

Multitrade of Pittsylvania LP Power Plant is a closed biomass power plant in Virginia, United States, with 90 MW of capacity, operated by Virginia Electric & Power Co.

Grid connection

It closed in 2019, which freed up a 90 MW grid connection at 115 kV to the grid of Virginia Electric & Power Co, unless it has been reassigned since.

Retiring power plants in the United States

Facts

Every value links to its source, and to the source's own record where it has one. Licences and last-checked dates are per row.

Fact	Value	Source
Location	Virginia	EIA-860 / 860M / 923 · Public domain · checked 24 Oct 2026
Status	Closed	EIA-860 / 860M / 923 · Public domain · checked 24 Oct 2026
Start year	1994	EIA-860 / 860M / 923 · Public domain · checked 24 Oct 2026
End year	2019	EIA-860 / 860M / 923 · Public domain · checked 24 Oct 2026
Operator	Virginia Electric & Power Co	EIA-860 / 860M / 923 · Public domain · checked 24 Oct 2026
Capacity	90 MW (nameplate of its retired generators)	EIA-860 / 860M / 923 · Public domain · checked 24 Oct 2026
Technology	Wood/Wood Waste Biomass	EIA-860 / 860M / 923 · Public domain · checked 24 Oct 2026
Grid operator	Virginia Electric & Power Co	EIA-860 / 860M / 923 · Public domain · checked 24 Oct 2026
Voltage	115 kV	EIA-860 / 860M / 923 · Public domain · checked 24 Oct 2026
Coordinates	37.1041, -79.2770	EIA-860 / 860M / 923 · Public domain · checked 24 Oct 2026

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How it compares

Multitrade of Pittsylvania LP is the 26th-largest of 27 power plants in Virginia and the 957th-largest of 1,009 in the United States by capacity; its 90 MW is <0.1% of the 917,512 MW we hold for the United States. Ranks and totals cover the power plants in our data that report their capacity, not every one in existence. Power plants planned, permitted or under construction are ranked apart.

Within	Rank	Total	Share
Virginia	26th of 27	23,885 MW	0.38%
United States	957th of 1,009	917,512 MW	<0.1%
All power plants in our data	2,720th of 15,799	1,918,113 MW	<0.1%

Timeline

Dated facts about this power plant from its sources, oldest first.

1994Started operating
2019Retired

Nearby

Within 50 km of this power plant: 1 data center, measured from the coordinates in the facts above.

Name	Kind	Size	Status	Distance
Lumos Networks	Data center	—	—	37 km

Operator, grid operator and place

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Yorktown1,257 MW

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Data on this page

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Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD), Open Government Licence v3.0.
Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration (Sep 2026). EIA-860 / 860M / 923, Public domain.
JRC Open Power Plants Database (JRC-PPDB-OPEN), European Commission, Joint Research Centre. JRC Open Power Plants Database (JRC-PPDB-OPEN), CC BY 4.0.
Bundesnetzagentur, Marktstammdatenregister. Marktstammdatenregister, DL-DE-BY-2.0.
Dutch power station owners' and operators' pages. Dutch power station owners' and operators' pages, Facts only, each linked to its page.
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RVO SDE(+)(+) projecten in beheer and SDE viewer. RVO SDE(+)(+) projecten in beheer and SDE viewer, Free reuse, no attribution required.
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