American Municipal Power-Ohio will soon be starting construction on a coal burning power plant in Meigs County, Ohio.

When that plant is up and running, the capacity from the AMP-Ohio Marietta plant will be transferred to the Meigs County plant, leaving the Gorsuch facility on Route 7 open to new opportunities.

"We are looking at our options in terms of re-developing and re-powering that asset, for continued use for AMP-Ohio communities," says Kent Carson, with AMP-Ohio.

Carson says the 60-year-old Marietta facility has been a fantastic plant for AMP-Ohio and they look forward to keeping the workforce in place.

Mike Jacoby, with the Southeastern Ohio Port Authority, says the plant employees about 100 jobs for the area. Jacoby also says, "whoever would need it would need advanced pollution control equipment, and maybe even a new technology to generate power, because it is such a dated facility, but there's a lot of value to the assets that are there, and there's obviously demand on the market as well."

AMP-Ohio says they hope to start producing electricity at the Meigs County plant in 2013. They do not expect a decision concerning the future of the Marietta plant in the near future, as they are still researching their options.