US power generation firm LS Power is planning to sell power from two of its gas-fired units at its 340MW Doswell Power Plant in Ashland, Virginia, to a planned behind-the-meter data center, according to a filing from the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC).

According to the filing, LS Power will sell up to 300MW to the data center under a five-year Power Purchase Agreement. The agreement will involve a new interconnection service agreement that would provide for the interconnection of Doswell Units 2 and 3 to the PJM Transmission System.

The planned data center campus is expected to consist of five 60MW “always-on, mission-critical” data center buildings.

The data center will be located on one or more parcels close to the Doswell power plant in Ashland, Virginia. It is expected to be constructed in a phased approach, with the campus growing by one building each year.

The owner and developer of the data center has not been disclosed.

The data center is facing opposition from Old Dominion Electric Cooperative (ODEC), who filed a protest last week to FERC challenging the Necessary Studies Agreement issued.

ODEC claimed it lacked details such as the data center’s construction timeline and at what point it would start drawing power from the grid, failing to provide “a clear description of what is being contemplated, to understand what PJM will study.”

The ODEC protest also notes there is an apparent gap in the consideration of these impacts when ISAs will be modified to accommodate large loads, including data centers, with configurations including co-located load arrangements.

The filing was initiated as the Doswell power plant sits in an area served by Rappahannock Electric Cooperative, an ODEC member.

Founded in 2009, LS Power is a power generation firm headquartered in New York. It has developed and acquired more than 47GW of power generation across a diversified portfolio of energy assets.