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filing its SCC application in April. The company will present a preferred route as well as potential alternatives. The SCC has the ultimate responsibility to certify the need and choose the route.
Electrical demand in Northern Virginia has grown by about 40 percent over the last decade. PJM Interconnection recently cited Dominion as hav-' ing the fastest growing demand for electricity at peak times among any of the PJM regions across 13 states. PJM likened the increase in demand on the Dominion system to adding approximately 1 million new houses over the next five years.
Without this power line, the company faces an increasing risk of having to use “rolling blackouts” to keep the Northern Virginia portion of our system stable as early as the summer of 2011.
The being studied along with the route segments shown at the workshops are:
• A route along Interstate 66.
• A longer route — approximately 60 miles —- along existing transmission corridors.
• An underground route in Frederick, Fauquier, Loudoun and Prince William counties. The 1-66 Alternative
In the 1-66 alternative, the transmission line would leave the Meadow Brook substation on an existing transmission cor
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