By 2018, private developer Moundsville Power LLC of Buffalo, N.Y., hopes to generate 549 megawatts of electricity by burning Marcellus and Utica shale natural gas in a $615 million plant along the Ohio River.

During the Wednesday Marshall County Commission meeting, officials with Moundsville Power and the Regional Economic Development Partnership discussed the project, in which developers hope to break ground either later this year or in early 2015.

"We have been working on this for a long time," said Andrew Dorn, managing partner with Moundsville Power. He also said during the meeting the company has filed for air quality permits from the West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection.

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