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- In 2023, Virginia's Norfolk Customs District handled about one-third of the nation’s coal exports, the largest share handled by any port.
- In 2023, natural gas accounted for 55% of Virginia's total in-state electricity net generation, nuclear power supplied 32%, renewables—mostly solar energy and biomass—provided 12%, and coal fueled 2%.
- The Bath County Pumped Storage Station, the largest power plant in Virginia by capacity with a net generating capacity of 3,015 megawatts, is the largest pumped-storage hydroelectric plant in the nation and the second-largest in the world.
- The PPL Pipeline (formerly Plantation Pipeline), one of the nation's largest petroleum products pipelines, delivers refined products throughout the Southeast before reaching its final delivery point in northern Virginia.
- In 2023, more than four-fifths of Virginia’s natural gas production came from coalbeds, and the state accounted for about one-tenth of the nation’s total coalbed methane production.
Last Updated: February 20, 2025