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In Giles County, officials hope to breathe new life into an old coal power plant
In the small town of Glen Lyn, in Giles County near the West Virginia border, a large defunct coal-fired power plant sits by the New River. After nearly a century of service beginning in 1919, it no longer generates electricity. Today, officials hope that …