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By Shannon Sollinger
Rappahannock News Staff Writer
Dominion Virginia Power presented its case Friday to the Times Community Newspapers editorial board for building a 40-mile, 500,000volt power line through Loudoun, Fauquier and Prince William counties.
Dominion will finalize maps of specific routes that are being considered for the power line before it holds public workshops, storting Nov. 28 in Middleburg. According to the revised study area, it appears the most likely path tracks Route 66 from Allegheny Power’s Meadowbrook substation south of Winchester to Dominion’s substation east of U.S. 15 in Aldie. Dominion has not confirmed this.
Allegheny has applied to build a line from its coal-fired plant at Mt. Storm, W.Va., to Meadowbrook.
Dominion representatives at last week’s meeting said they hope to avoid crossing any conservation easements.
The company’s problem now is not lack of power, although it issued a request Nov. 17 for 300 megawatts of new peaking capacity. The problems are inadequate transmission lines and the electrical version of a traffic jam - too many electrons trying to go the same place at the same time. Rather than build new plants within its service area, Dominion prefers to solve the problem with a new transmission line - bringing more power in from Mt. Storm and other plants farther west.
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