The West Virginia House Bill 2014 or Power Generation and Consumption Act, signed into law on April 30, 2025, creates a certified microgrid program in West Virginia to expand microgrid development, utilize coal and natural gas resources, and reinvest in West Virginia by creating funds to lower the income tax, provide funding for economic development, and stabilize the electric grid. West Virgina is a regulated state in which only the utilities are allowed to provide electricity in their service territory. House Bill 2014 removes that requirement for data centers and allows for any third party to provide them power via a microgrid. The bill aims to further incentivize data centers to locate in West Virginia by creating a specialized tax structure for data centers: 50 percent of taxes collected on any data centers and microgrids operating in West Virginia will go to the personal income tax reduction fund, 30 percent will go to the county where the data center is located, 10 percent will go to the remaining 54 counties, 5 percent will be placed in the Economic Enhancement Grant Fund administered by the Water Development Authority and the final 5 percent will be put in the newly created Electric Grid Stabilization and Security Fund. That fund is meant to help existing utilities develop and maintain infrastructure for continued generation and transmission of coal-fired and natural gas-fueled power.
West Virginia House Bill 2002 creates a One-Stop Shop Permitting Program, which includes the creation of a Permitting Dashboard to operate as a "one-stop-shop" for obtaining and renewing qualifying business permits. Signed into law on April 30, 2025, the new bill aims at streamlining the permitting process in West Virginia.