CHARLESTON, W.Va. — West Virginia Gov. Patrick Morrisey’s sweeping new energy blueprint — a bid to triple the state’s electricity generation capacity to 50 gigawatts by 2050 — was unveiled with flourish and promises of economic revival.

But environmental groups in West Virginia say the proposal is built on unrealistic assumptions about coal and gas, outdated engineering expectations and a refusal to embrace the energy technologies that the rest of the country is already racing toward.

Speaking at the West Virginia Energy Educational Forum in Wheeling, Morrisey cast the state as a bulwark of national power generation at a moment of surging demand.

“For generations, West Virginia has been the backbone of U.S. energy,” he said, adding that the “50 by 50” plan is framed around “patriotic du

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