WHITE SULPHUR SPRINGS, W.Va. (WV News) — Gov. Patrick Morrisey announced a plan Thursday to “supercharge power production” in West Virginia.

Morrisey, during his remarks at the West Virginia Chamber of Commerce Annual Meeting and Business Summit, set a goal of increasing the state’s electrical generating capacity to 50 gigawatts by 2050.

“Right now West Virginia has 16 gigawatts of base-load generating capacity,” he said. “So it’s important for part of our economic development to have a strategic plan to change that. Not just to arrest the decline that we inherited, but to grow really fast.”

The “50 by ’50” plan will focus on increasing the uses of “stable sources of fuel,” Morrisey said.

“Primarily coal, natural gas and nuclear,” he said. “By maintaining and building out our grid, our

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