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Dominion Virginia Power
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The utility giant recently began an aggressive advertising campaign to convince the citizens of Northern Virginia that they are in danger of blackouts. However, the ads obscure the truth and are irresponsible scare tactics.
Dominion has not substantiated its claim that we need a new 40-mile transmission line. Are we to take them solely at their word? Dominion wants to cut a 150-foot-wide scar across landscape that looks much as it did when George Washington surveyed the region more than 200 years ago. Such a major impact requires more than an assertion of need. Dominion needs to divulge its data, analysis and defend its conclusions. Tb date, we have seen none of the supporting evidence.
The facts, as we can determine them from Dominion’s own statements, show the claimed shortfall in power is unlikely, small, of short-duration and a long way off if it ever happens. Dominion has stated the need for the line is to provide “system stability in the event of a contingency” between 2011 and 2016. This is utility jargon for peak day power in the event another part of the system fails. The claimed shortfall is 6 percent of peak day demand or in energy terms about 400
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