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“The real deal is they (Dominion) have not proved the need, no matter where they put it,” Stribling said.
Dominion would collect revenue based on the number of megawatts such a line would cany, regardless of the electricity’s destination or users. The line would link Dominion substations near Winchester and near Areola in Loudoun County.
Dominion’s decision to choose the southern loop as its preferred route puzzles local officials and landowners.
“I understand why they might want to use the existing corridor,” Stribling said. “What I don’t understand is why they’re going that far out of their way to accomplish what they want to accomplish.”
The proposed southern line would measure about 68 miles between the Winchester and Arcola-area substations and cost about $210 million to build, according to Dominion.
The other above-ground alternatives, generally clustered along Interstate 66 through northern Fauquier, would be about 40 miles and cost around $150 million. A line would be suspended from steel towers averaging 125 to 140 feet tall and spaced about 1,000 feet apart. (Dominion estimates an option to buiy a line along 1-66 would cost $1.7 billion.) The same height and spacing estimates for towers generally would apply to Dominion’s preferred option.
Like others, Stribling believes Dominion has mishandled the project from the start.
“They’ll come out with a proposal without explaining much to the public,” Stribling said. “It’s bad public relations, any way you look at it.”
He wants more details about the potential effects a new transmission line would have on farms, homes, schools, businesses and other uses. Fauquier
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