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Power

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Critics of the line have suggested using demand management - offering customers incentives to use more power at non-peak hours and less power at noon on a hot day - to resolve the problem without running a power line over a landscape rich with historic sites, battlefields and conservation easements.

“We would love to work with you on demand management,” said PEC’s Miller. “Are there other solutions than building this fine?”

Only 15,000 of Dominion’s 2.3 million customers have installed “time of use” meters to take advantage of lower rates in off-peak hours. The service is available to all.

Dominion’s peak demand this year, in the August heat wave, was 17,000 megawatts. Its average demand is less

92.7%