The Bath County Pumped Storage Station is a pumped storage hydroelectric power plant with a generation capacity of 3,003 MW The station is located in the northern corner of Bath County, Virginia, on the southeast side of the Eastern Continental Divide, which forms this section of the border between Virginia and West Virginia. The station consists of two reservoirs separated by about 1,260 feet (380 m) in elevation.
It cost $1.6 billion, and was constructed with 2,100 megawatts (MW) capacity. In 2004 upgrades started, increasing power generation to 510MW and pumping power to 480MW per turbine. Bath County Station is jointly owned by Dominion Generation (60%) and the Allegheny Power System (40%), and managed by Dominion. It went into operation in 1985 and is still the largest-capacity pumped-storage power station in the world.
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